{"id":66808,"date":"2025-02-06T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=66808"},"modified":"2025-02-12T16:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T06:25:36","slug":"python-cowsay-api-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/python-cowsay-api-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Cowsay API Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Python Cowsay API Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.gif\" title=\"Python Cowsay API Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\"  \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Python Cowsay API Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We discovered an interesting Open Source Python API \/ Command-line tool called <a target=\"_blank\" title='Python cowsay' href='https:\/\/pypi.org\/project\/cowsay\/' rel=\"noopener\"><i>cowsay<\/i><\/a> which we installed up at our AlmaLinux web server via &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\npip install cowsay<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; with an integration purpose in mind, so thanks.  Before many readers&#8217; time indeed, but some may remember those cute banner printouts that told you who owned the next printout on a spooling &#8220;crude graphics&#8221; printout in the late 70&#8217;s &#8230; well <i>cowsay<\/i> encapsulates those heady days (and who can forget punch cards)?!   Before integration, though, we want to test it via a new PHP supervisor on <a target=\"_blank\" title='PHP exec() method information' href='http:\/\/php.net\/manual\/en\/function.exec.php' rel=\"noopener\">exec<\/a> method Linux command line interfacings to <i>cowsay<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>So we started, with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php_GETME\" rel=\"noopener\">this &#8220;first draft&#8221;<\/a> getting places and then <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php-GETME\" rel=\"noopener\">this &#8220;second draft&#8221;<\/a> with a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/PHP\/Geographicals\/diff.php?one=http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php-GETME\" rel=\"noopener\">little more sophistication<\/a> to leave the day with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php\" rel=\"noopener\">this interfacer<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:100%;height:800px;\" src=\"\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/cowsay.php?rand=7565876\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d66808' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d66808\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/api\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d66808' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We discovered an interesting Open Source Python API \/ Command-line tool called cowsay which we installed up at our AlmaLinux web server via &#8230; pip install cowsay &#8230; with an integration purpose in mind, so thanks. 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