Python Cheat Sheets
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Date/Time
# Date/time as a string using time module
import time
time.strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
# Date/time as a string using datetime module
import datetime
datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%Y%m%d%H%M%S')
Files/Directories
# Find all .txt files under /some/dir
for rootDir, subDirs, files in os.walk(dirToScan):
for fname in files:
if fnmatch.fnmatch(fname, mask):
yield (rootDir, fname)
for dir, file in YieldFiles("/some/dir", "*.txt")
print file
Signals
import signal
# Somewhere in your initialisation
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal_handler)
def signal_handler(signal, frame):
# Clean up etc
sys.exit(1)
