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Thread: Good way to ignore case when searching elements?
Post: Good way to ignore case when searching elements?
| Hello,
In the files I need to work with, I notice that the values in the following meta line can be either lower-case or capitalized.
What would be the right way to convert them to lower-case regard... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Thread: Right way to open files with different encodings?
Post: Right way to open files with different encodings?
| Hello,
Some of the files could be Windows (latin1, iso9959-1, cp1252), others could be utf-8.
Is try/except the right way to do it?
#with open(file, 'r') as f:
#with open(file, 'r',encoding='utf-8'... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Apr-23-2024, 08:49 AM |
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Thread: Loop through all files in a directory?
Post: RE: Loop through all files in a directory?
| Thanks much. The list I'll work on is tiny enough that I don't need a generator, but it's nice to know that it's available. Ditto for one liners and function annotations. |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Apr-23-2024, 07:52 AM |
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Thread: Loop through all files in a directory?
Post: RE: Loop through all files in a directory?
| Thank you.
(Apr-22-2024, 07:10 PM)Gribouillis Wrote: files = [os.path.join(d, f) for d, _, files in os.walk(root) for f in files]
I'm not used to one-liners. Am I correct in understanding it's the ... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Apr-23-2024, 02:02 AM |
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Thread: Loop through all files in a directory?
Post: Loop through all files in a directory?
| Hello,
I need to find all the files located under a given directory, including all the sub-directories it may contain.
Is this a/the right way to do it?
import os
import glob
for filename in glob.... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Apr-22-2024, 06:16 PM |
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Thread: How to add multi-line comment section?
Post: How to add multi-line comment section?
| Edit (since this forum doesn't support deleting a thread): My mistake. After using the (shift+)TAB keys, the script runs. Guess there were useless TAB characters.
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Hello,
Is there... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Mar-24-2024, 01:33 PM |
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Thread: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
Post: RE: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
| I'll try that instead.
Thank you! |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Mar-10-2024, 07:24 PM |
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Thread: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
Post: RE: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
| What a pain…
What about using PyInstaller to compile the whole thing into a single binary? |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Mar-10-2024, 06:38 PM |
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Thread: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
Post: RE: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
| Thanks.
Yes, like I said, "The script works when launched manually."
After I followed the instructions above, I can see the screen flicker every minute (looks like a CMD window opens and closes real... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Mar-10-2024, 06:03 PM |
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Thread: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
Post: Running Python script through Task Scheduler?
| Hello,
This is my first try at running a Python (3.12.0) script through Windows 10's Task Scheduler… and it didn't work (as pretty much expected).
It's a simple script that 1) fetches a web page fro... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Mar-10-2024, 03:39 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to utf-8?
Post: RE: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1...
| Turns out there's a lot easier solution: Just open the file and feed it to Beautiful Soup, which will take care of 1) converting data to utf-8 if needed, and add/edit the relevant meta line in the hea... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-29-2024, 12:30 AM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to utf-8?
Post: RE: Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to ut...
| Looks like it.
After converting it to utf-8, chardet says a file is still "ascii with confidence 1.0" while both Notepad++ and Notepad2 say it's utf-8.
Bottom line: chardet doesn't seem reliable to ... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-26-2024, 06:19 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to utf-8?
Post: RE: Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to ut...
| Using this code, the second run still says files are not in utf-8. It doesn't look like it's the right way to convert Windows files to utf-8:
for file in files:
rawdata = open(file, "rb").read()
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-26-2024, 03:38 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to utf-8?
Post: RE: Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to ut...
| The two lines you mean?
#data = open(file, "r").read()
#data.encode(encoding = 'UTF-8', errors = 'strict')
data = rawdata.decode(encoding=encoding)
#with open(file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as outp:
wit... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-26-2024, 03:21 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 to utf-8?
Post: [SOLVED] Correct way to convert file from cp-1252 ...
| Hello,
In a directory, I have a bunch of HTML files that were written in cp-1252 (ie. Latin1) that I need to convert to utf-8.
The following doesn't seem to work: After running the loop once, the se... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-26-2024, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: [Faircom CTree] Access from Python?
Post: RE: [Faircom CTree] Access from Python?
| I'll give it a shot, thank you. |
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Winfried |
Data Science |
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Feb-23-2024, 01:26 PM |
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Thread: [Faircom CTree] Access from Python?
Post: [Faircom CTree] Access from Python?
| Hello,
There's a long dead application — development stopped in the late 90's — that used Faircom's CTree database engine (the DLL says: Company=FairCom Corporation, Description=CTree, Prod version=4... |
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Winfried |
Data Science |
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557 |
Feb-21-2024, 03:52 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Tiny web server as standalone executable?
Post: [SOLVED] Tiny web server as standalone executable?
| Hello,
I need a basic, standalone web server with support for directory listing.
Windows' antivirus blocks Mongoose ("Trojan Win32 Wacatac.B!ml"), and neither Ritlabs Tinyweb server, Rebex Tiny Web ... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Feb-09-2024, 11:48 AM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Pad strings to always get three-digit number?
Post: RE: Pad strings to always get three-digit number?
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Jan-27-2024, 05:23 PM |
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Thread: [SOLVED] Pad strings to always get three-digit number?
Post: [SOLVED] Pad strings to always get three-digit num...
| Hello,
I've tried different things, but still can't strings to always be left-padded, three-digits long even for strings that contain a dash sign:
file1 = open('input.txt', 'r')
for line in file1.re... |
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Winfried |
General Coding Help |
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Jan-27-2024, 03:46 PM |
