Programming Python, 3rd Edition

6.1. "Splits and Joins and Alien Invasions" This chapter and the next continue our look at the system utilities domain in Python. They present a collection of larger Python scripts that do real systems workcomparing and copying directory trees, sp...

6.2. Splitting and Joining Files Like most kids, mine spend a lot of time on the Internet. As far as I can tell, it's the thing to do these days. Among this latest generation, computer geeks and gurus seem to be held in the sam...

6.3. Generating Forward-Link Web Pages Moving is rarely painless, even in the brave new world of cyberspace. Changing your web site's Internet address can lead to all sorts of confusion. You need to ask known contacts to use the new addres...

6.4. A Regression Test Script As we've seen, Python provides interfaces to a variety of system services, along with tools for adding others. Example 6-5 shows some commonly used services in action. It implements a simple regression-test...

6.5. Packing and Unpacking Files Many moons ago (about 10 years), I used machines that had no tools for bundling files into a single package for easy transport. Here is the situation: you have a large set of text files laying around ...

6.6. Automated Program Launchers Suppose, for just a moment, that you wish to ship Python programs to an audience that may be in the very early stages of evolving from computer user to computer programmer. Maybe you are shipping a Pytho...