> Perhaps this is mostly a reflection on me as a programmer :-} but I
> found the job surprisingly tricky.
No I think you're right...
It's not very important for me retrieve exactly what kind of file it
is, it could be just something more in my little program (an organizer
that put files in the rig
This is something I've recently thought about; perhaps you wouldn't
mind some points?
1) I've been running 'file' via os.popen, and I've had trouble with it
incorrectly spotting file types (Fedora Core 1). I can name a specific
example where it thinks a plain text README file is HTML (despite tha
Chris Rebert (cybercobra) wrote:
Have you tried the tarfile or zipfile modules? You might need to ugrade
your python if you don't have them. They look pretty easy and should
make this a snap.
You can grab the output from the *nix "file" command using the new
subprocess module.
Good Luck
- Chris
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Have you tried the tarfile or zipfile modules? You might need to ugrade
your python if you don't have them. They look pretty easy and should
make this a snap.
You can grab the output from the *nix "file" command using the new
subprocess module.
Good Luck
- Chris
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PYTHON POWERs all!
All your
> Another thing, I work on linux (gentoo) and I would like to use the
"file" command to retrieve informations about type of file instead of
using extensions, do you think this can be done?
this is trivial:
>>> import os
>>> os.popen("file /etc/passwd").read()
'/etc/passwd: ASCII text\n'
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Hi everybody,
this is my first post but I've read already many of yours interesting
posts... (sorry for my bad english)
Anyway for my little project I need a module that given an archive (zip,
bz2, tar ...) gives me back the archive decompressed.
I looked at the modules in the library reference
