Of course, some files are going to contain more complex formatting than others. For example, if you want to write a .Doc file in Python, you’ll come unstuck!

To read in a txt file you can use the “open” function. The open function has 3 modes “r, w, a”. The read mode limits you to opening the file and reading what’s inside without being able to change or ...

Finally, you can write a program to extract zip files to disk in just a few lines. The following Python program extracts all zip files given as arguments to the current directory.

The problem I've noticed is that if I append the file with each of the 100k runs (one at a time), it can happen that two threads try to save to the file at the same time and some row(s) end up empty.

What followed was the realization that writing a FUSE filesystem, particularly in Python, isn’t as complicated as it may seem. Really, through the power of open source, the heavy lifting has ...

So I have a program in Python for use on a Linux machine that's dealing with binary data flowing through what may be a Linux FIFO.I'm using Avinash Kak's BitVector to modify the data as it goes ...