There are three basic ways to do this depending on what you have done with the changes to the file A. If you have not yet added the changes to the index or committed them, then you just want to use the checkout command – this will change the state of the working copy to … Read more
With this type of thing you need to be careful what your actual working directory is. For example, you may not run the script from the directory the file is in. In this case, you can’t just use a relative path by itself. If you are sure the file you want is in a subdirectory … Read more
A clean way to download a file is: import urllib testfile = urllib.URLopener() testfile.retrieve(“http://randomsite.com/file.gz”, “file.gz”) This downloads a file from a website and names it file.gz. This is one of my favorite solutions, from Downloading a picture via urllib and python. This example uses the urllib library, and it will directly retrieve the file form … Read more
Isn’t the ‘date’ command much simpler? No need for awk, stat, etc. date -r <filename> Also, consider looking at the man page for date formatting; for example with common date and time format: date -r <filename> “+%m-%d-%Y %H:%M:%S”
Use: File.open(“out.txt”, [your-option-string]) {|f| f.write(“write your stuff here”) } where your options are: r – Read only. The file must exist. w – Create an empty file for writing. a – Append to a file.The file is created if it does not exist. r+ – Open a file for update both reading and writing. The … Read more
This may be quicker than yours. Makes no assumptions about line length. Backs through the file one block at a time till it’s found the right number of ‘\n’ characters. def tail( f, lines=20 ): total_lines_wanted = lines BLOCK_SIZE = 1024 f.seek(0, 2) block_end_byte = f.tell() lines_to_go = total_lines_wanted block_number = -1 blocks = [] … Read more
First, open the file and get all your lines from the file. Then reopen the file in write mode and write your lines back, except for the line you want to delete: with open(“yourfile.txt”, “r”) as f: lines = f.readlines() with open(“yourfile.txt”, “w”) as f: for line in lines: if line.strip(“\n”) != “nickname_to_delete”: f.write(line) You … Read more
import os def get_immediate_subdirectories(a_dir): return [name for name in os.listdir(a_dir) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(a_dir, name))]
Try #include <string.h> #define __FILENAME__ (strrchr(__FILE__, “https://stackoverflow.com/”) ? strrchr(__FILE__, “https://stackoverflow.com/”) + 1 : __FILE__) For Windows use ‘\\’ instead of “https://stackoverflow.com/”.
TLDR; Use standard-library’s importlib.resources module as explained in the method no 2, below. The traditional pkg_resources from setuptools is not recommended anymore because the new method: it is significantly more performant; is is safer since the use of packages (instead of path-stings) raises compile-time errors; it is more intuitive because you don’t have to “join” … Read more