File Transfer Archives

How do I wrap a string in a file in Python?

December 3, 2020 Abreonia Ng

Question or problem about Python programming: How do I create a file-like object (same duck type as File) with the contents of a string?

Best method for reading newline delimited files and discarding the newlines?

December 2, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or problem about Python programming: I am trying to determine the best way to handle getting rid of newlines when reading in newline delimited files in Python.

How to read one single line of csv data in Python?

December 1, 2020 Oceane Wilson

Question or problem about Python programming: There is a lot of examples of reading csv data using python, like this one:

Save a large file using the Python requests library

November 29, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or problem about Python programming: I know that fetching a url is as simple as requests.get and I can get at the raw response body and save it to a file, but for large files, is there a way to stream directly to a file? Like if I’m downloading a movie with it or […]

Set Django’s FileField to an existing file

November 29, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or problem about Python programming: I have an existing file on disk (say /folder/file.txt) and a FileField model field in Django.

“restricted” folder/files in OS X El Capitan

November 28, 2020 James Cameron

Question or issue on macOS: After upgrading from OS X Yosemite to OS X El Capitan Developer Preview, I tried to edit /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ssh.plist to change the default SSH port to a custom one. This is the process I’ve been using for a couple of years.

How to save a NSImage as a new file

November 28, 2020 Andrew Rocky

Question or issue on macOS: How can I save a NSImage as a new file (png, jpg, …) in a certain directory?

Read a file/URL line-by-line in Swift

November 28, 2020 Simon Abital

Question or issue on macOS: I am trying to read a file given in an NSURL and load it into an array, with items separated by a newline character \n.

Bundle.main.path(forResource:ofType:inDirectory:) returns nil

November 28, 2020 Jeffrey Schneider

Question or issue on macOS: Try not to laugh or cry — I’m just getting back into coding after 20 years out… I’ve spent more than 4 hours looking at references and trying code snippets to get Bundle.main.path to open my text file so I can read in data for my app (my next step […]

How do I rename all files to lowercase?

November 27, 2020 Odhran Miss

Question or issue on macOS: I have for example TREE.wav, ONE.WAV. I want to rename it to tree.wav, one.wav. How do I rename all files to lowercase?