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2011-10-20T05:05:39-07:00Nick Coghlanhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/2035254/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577913-selective-directory-walking/
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Python
recipe 577913
by <a href="/recipes/users/2035254/">Nick Coghlan</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/directories/">directories</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/globbing/">globbing</a>).
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<p>Python's os.walk() standard library iterator is useful if you want to walk an entire directory tree, but you're on your own when it comes to implementing name filtering and recursive depth limiting on top of it.</p>
<p>This recipe supports these features with an interface that is just as convenient as the underlying os.walk() API, while being significantly more powerful.</p>
Convert wildcard text files to PDF with xtopdf (e.g. report*.txt) (Python)
2016-12-06T20:37:30-08:00Vasudev Ramhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4173351/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/580727-convert-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with-xtopdf-eg-/
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Python
recipe 580727
by <a href="/recipes/users/4173351/">Vasudev Ram</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/conversion/">conversion</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/files/">files</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/globbing/">globbing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/patterns/">patterns</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf/">pdf</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdfwriter/">pdfwriter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pdf_generation/">pdf_generation</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/text_processing/">text_processing</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/wildcard/">wildcard</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/xtopdf/">xtopdf</a>).
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<p>This recipe shows how to convert all text files matching a filename wildcard to PDF, using the xtopdf PDF creation toolkit. For example, if you specify report<em>.txt as the wildcard, all files in the current directory that match report</em>.txt, will be converted to PDF, each in a separate PDF file. The original text files are not changed.</p>
<p>Here is a guide to installing and using xtopdf:</p>
<p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html</a></p>
<p>More details on running the program, and sample output, are available here:</p>
<p><a href="http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html" rel="nofollow">http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/12/xtopdf-wildcard-text-files-to-pdf-with.html</a></p>
Enhancing dir() with globs (Python)
2011-07-01T04:03:46-07:00Steven D'Apranohttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4172944/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/577774-enhancing-dir-with-globs/
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Python
recipe 577774
by <a href="/recipes/users/4172944/">Steven D'Aprano</a>
(<a href="/recipes/tags/dir/">dir</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/filter/">filter</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/glob/">glob</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/globbing/">globbing</a>).
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<p>dir() is useful for interactively exploring the attributes and methods of objects at the command line. But sometimes dir() returns a lot of information:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>>>> len(dir(decimal.Decimal)) # too much information!
137
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<p>It can be helpful to filter the list of names returned. This enhanced version of dir does exactly that, using simple string globbing:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint"><code>>>> dir(decimal.Decimal, '*log*') # just attributes with "log" in the name
['_fill_logical', '_islogical', '_log10_exp_bound', 'log10', 'logb',
'logical_and', 'logical_invert', 'logical_or', 'logical_xor']
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