WANTED: Complete List of WhiteHouse.Gov Petitions

I've created a petition on http://whitehouse.gov to modify copyright law to prevent copyright of any law enacted in the United States at the Federal, State, and Local level.  This prevents jerk corporations from claiming copyright when someone tries to put the code/law/edict on a webpage.

But, there aren't enough signatures yet.  So I tried advertising to my FB friends.  I have to get to 150 before the petition is visible on the list of open petitions on the website.

That got me thinking:  how do I find all the other petitions that aren't available for viewing yet due to being not-advertised enough?

They provide a short-URL for these petitions.  This shortener probably is incremental.  Mine is http://wh.gov/lInfx  PLEASE SIGN IT and I figure the other petitions might have urls near it.

So, here's my program to find them:

#!/usr/bin/python

#http://wh.gov/lInfx
#http://wh.gov/lInfx

nums1 = [x for x in range(65, 90)]
nums2 = [x for x in range(97, 122)]
nums = []
nums.extend(nums1)
nums.extend(nums2)
print nums

with open("/tmp/urls.wh", "w") as OFH:
    for i in nums:
        for j in nums:
            for k in nums:
                for m in nums:
                    OFH.write("http://wh.gov/l%c%c%c%c\n" % (i, j, k, m))
                    

# wget -a out.log -t 1 --read-timeout=3 --max-redirect 1  --save-headers

No luck yet, it takes a long time to run.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/holidays-muslim/6T6csRph
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition//95WplFSK 
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/muslim-should-have-holiday-their-holiday/dH8ZTMSf https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/please-protect-peace-monument-nassau-county-new-york-eisenhower-park/hkXX3082

Solved: How to install Python ibm_db DB2 driver on RHEL

Solved:  Installing Python's DB2 module (ibm_db) on Linux

Problem 1:  I kept getting a message about not having include files installed.  First, I had to get a sysadmin to install the files.  But, he didn't finish the job, quite.  I had to soft link it myself.  That is, the include files are installed by default in /opt/ibm/db2/V10.1, but linked to from /opt/db2inst/sqllib.  So:

$ sudo ln -s /opt/ibm/db2/V10.1/include /opt/db2inst/sqllib/include

That solved the include problem.

Problem 2:  I was installing IBM's DB2 python driver on a RHEL 6.2 linux box, but I kept getting the message:

Detected 64-bit Python
Environment variable IBM_DB_HOME is not set. Set it to your DB2/IBM_Data_Server_Driver installation directory and retry ibm_db module install.

This was despite executing the userprofile script in /opt/db2inst/sqllib/userprofile, which set the environment vars properly: 

xxxxx@xxxxxx:~/making/ibm_db-2.0.4.1$ env | egrep -i ibm
IBM_DB_LIB=/opt/db2inst1/sqllib/lib
IBM_DB_DIR=/opt/db2inst1/sqllib
IBM_DB_HOME=/home/db2inst1/sqllib
IBM_DB_INCLUDE=/opt/db2inst1/sqllib/include

Dammit!  I couldn't get past this.  I tried both

• sudo easy_install ibm_db 
• sudo pip install ibm_db

This was to no avail.  I even tried putting the whole thing in a bash script and doing the export IBM_DB_LIB stuff there.  Again, failure.

Finally, I downloaded the source and did the python setup.py build, which worked, so I was halfway there.  Then, I had to do the sudo setup.py install (since it was to be installed in system directories):  Failure (with above message about missing IBM_DB_HOME environment variable).  But, I could do the env and see the vars there!  So, since I'm doing this from source, I edited setup.py and put a pprint in, showing the os.envoron.  This made it obvious.  It showed I was executing as sudo, so as root, and root didn't have the userprofile being executed, so not var was being set.

Quick:  "man sudo" !!

SOLUTION:  It shows that to do this right, you must invoke sudo with -E to keep the environment variables from the current environment.

$ sudo -E python setup.py install

Hurray!  Installed!