That would be the tempfile module. It has functions to get the temporary directory, and also has some shortcuts to create temporary files and directories in it, either named or unnamed. Example: import tempfile print tempfile.gettempdir() # prints the current temporary directory f = tempfile.TemporaryFile() f.write(‘something on temporaryfile’) f.seek(0) # return to beginning of file … Read more
The bug you reference (bug 4787391) has been fixed in Java 8. Even if you are using an older version of Java, the System.getProperty(“user.home”) approach is probably still the best. The user.home approach seems to work in a very large number of cases. A 100% bulletproof solution on Windows is hard, because Windows has a … Read more
Usually, uname with its various options will tell you what environment you’re running in: pax> uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 IBM-L3F3936 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin pax> uname -s CYGWIN_NT-5.1 And, according to the very helpful schot (in the comments), uname -s gives Darwin for OSX and Linux for Linux, while my Cygwin gives CYGWIN_NT-5.1. But you … Read more
Look up the access() function, found in unistd.h. You can replace your function with if (access(fname, F_OK) == 0) { // file exists } else { // file doesn’t exist } Under Windows (VC) unistd.h does not exist. To make it work it is necessary to define: #ifdef WIN32 #include <io.h> #define F_OK 0 #define … Read more
All C++ compilers have one serious performance problem to deal with. Compiling C++ code is a long, slow process. Compiling headers included on top of C++ files is a very long, slow process. Compiling the huge header structures that form part of Windows API and other large API libraries is a very, very long, slow … Read more
Java 7 now has a System.lineSeparator() method.
Since C++ 11 you can use std::chrono::system_clock::now() Example (copied from en.cppreference.com): #include <iostream> #include <chrono> #include <ctime> int main() { auto start = std::chrono::system_clock::now(); // Some computation here auto end = std::chrono::system_clock::now(); std::chrono::duration<double> elapsed_seconds = end-start; std::time_t end_time = std::chrono::system_clock::to_time_t(end); std::cout << “finished computation at ” << std::ctime(&end_time) << “elapsed time: ” << elapsed_seconds.count() << … Read more
Almost four years after asking this question, I have finally found an answer that completely satisfies me! See the details in github:help‘s guide to Dealing with line endings. Git allows you to set the line ending properties for a repo directly using the text attribute in the .gitattributes file. This file is committed into the … Read more
>>> import os >>> os.name ‘posix’ >>> import platform >>> platform.system() ‘Linux’ >>> platform.release() ‘2.6.22-15-generic’ The output of platform.system() is as follows: Linux: Linux Mac: Darwin Windows: Windows See: platform — Access to underlying platform’s identifying data
You want to use os.path.expanduser. This will ensure it works on all platforms: from os.path import expanduser home = expanduser(“~”) If you’re on Python 3.5+ you can use pathlib.Path.home(): from pathlib import Path home = str(Path.home())