Chemical inventory

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We're supposed to keep track of the various chemicals we store in our labs ([1]). This sort of thing is tedious to maintain by hand, so I wrote some Python scripts to make the maintenance easier. The code is available as a Git repository here. It runs on Linux and requires a working LaTeX installation. CherryPy and Jinja2 provide a simple web interface for adding newly purchased chemicals, so the responsibility for keeping the list up to date can be distributed throughout the lab. Of course, up to date lists of available chemicals can be automatically generated from the database to keep the safety people happy.

Not super-exciting, but it took me a while to put together, and I'm pretty happy with it now, so I thought I'd `tell the world' ;). Stop by 927 if you're curious :p.