Striping a string from newline markers - python-3.x

I store configuration data (paths to specific files) inside a file named app.cfg that looks like this :
path/to/config.json
path/to/default/folder
and I query those item with the following Python code:
with open("app.cfg","r",newline='') as config:
data = config.readlines()
PathToConfig = data[0]
DefaultPath = data[1]
config.close()
But when I use PathToConfig in my script, the path stored in this variable cannot be used because there is \n at the end of the string.
I tried to fix this issue by using this PathToConfig = data[0].rstrip() but there still is \n at the end of the string.
How can I strip this string from the newline marker ?


You should be able to solve it with .rstrip to strip "\n":
create app.cfg:
with open("app.cfg","w",newline='') as config:
config.writelines("""path/to/config.json
path/to/default/folder""")
app.cfg looks like this:
read contents from file:
with open("app.cfg","r",newline='') as config:
data = config.readlines()
PathToConfig = data[0].rstrip("\n")
DefaultPath = data[1]
output:

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How to compare filenames with difference in special character encoding?

I am working with a system that syncs files between two vendors. The tooling is written in Javascript and does a transformation on file names before sending it to the destination. I am trying to fix a bug in it that is failing to properly compare file names between the origin and destination.
The script uses the file name to check if it's on destination
For example:
The following file name contains a special character that has different encoding between source and destination.
source: Chinchón.jpg // hex code: ó
destination : Chinchón.jpg // hex code: 0xf3
The function that does the transformation is:
export const normalizeText = (text:string) => text
.normalize('NFC')
.replace(/\p{Diacritic}/gu, "")
.replace(/\u{2019}/gu, "'")
.replace(/\u{ff1a}/gu, ":")
.trim()
and the comparison is happening just like the following:
const array1 = ['Chinchón.jpg'];
console.log(array1.includes('Chinchón.jpg')); // false
Do I reverse the transformation before comparing? what's the best way to do that?

If i got your question right:
// prepare dictionary
const rawDictionary = ['Chinchón.jpg']
const dictionary = rawDictionary.map(x => normalizeText(x))
...
const rawComparant = 'Chinchón.jpg'
const comparant = normalizeText(rawComparant)
console.log(rawSources.includes(comparant))

Includes return false even though the String is inside the string

I want to see if the String "Streamer" is inside, but it always returns false. The String isn't for sure inside the file. I think that the String is really a String. If I print the whole String some weird characters appear on top of the file.
Console Image
// index.js
let sini = fs.readFileSync("C:\\Windows\\Sandboxie.ini", 'utf-8');
console.log(sini.includes("Streamer"))
# Sandboxie.ini
#
# Sandboxie-Plus configuration file
#
[GlobalSettings]
Template=WindowsRasMan
Template=WindowsLive
Template=OfficeLicensing
Template=OfficeClickToRun
[UserSettings_0D06021F]
SbieCtrl_UserName=tomie
SbieCtrl_NextUpdateCheck=1655566649
SbieCtrl_WindowCoords=121,311,1237,632
SbieCtrl_ActiveView=40021
SbieCtrl_ProcessViewColumnWidths=250,70,300
SbieCtrl_HideMessage=2223,Eckernfoerde.mov [Mjolnir4285177803 / 115906982]
SbieCtrl_ExplorerWarn=n
SbieCtrl_BoxExpandedView=DefaultBox
[DefaultBox]
ConfigLevel=9
AutoRecover=y
BlockNetworkFiles=y
Template=OpenSmartCard
Template=OpenBluetooth
Template=SkipHook
Template=FileCopy
Template=qWave
Template=BlockPorts
Template=LingerPrograms
Template=AutoRecoverIgnore
RecoverFolder=%{374DE290-123F-4565-9164-39C4925E467B}%
RecoverFolder=%Personal%
RecoverFolder=%Desktop%
BorderColor=#00FFFF,ttl,6
Enabled=y
[Streamer360384]
Enabled=y
[Streamer127138]
Enabled=y

Passing a string variable to glob

I'm trying to pass a directory to glob which will be read to a variable from a config file.
If I just do this it works fine:
path = '//Server/Company/Official Documents/**/*.pdf'
Files = glob.glob(path,recursive=True)
But if I try to do this I get an empty list:
path = Config[1][1]
Files = glob.glob('{path}**/*.pdf'.format(path=path),recursive=True)
For information,
print(Config [1][1])
gives this
'//Server/Company/Official Documents/'

You are missinng / in '{path}**/*.pdf'.format(path=path)
Try changinng it to:
'{path}/**/*.pdf'.format(path=path1)
like:
glob.glob('{path}/**/*.pdf'.format(path=path),recursive=True)

How to get the name of the directory from the name of the directory + the file

In an application, I can get the path to a file which resides in a directory as a string:
"/path/to/the/file.txt"
In order to write another another file into that same directory, I want to change the string "/path/to/the/file.txt" and remove the part "file.txt" to finally only get
"/path/to/the/"
as a string
I could use
string = "/path/to/the/file.txt"
string.split('/')
and then glue all the term (except the last one) together with a loop
Is there an easy way to do it?

You can use os.path.basename for getting last part of path and delete it with using replace.
import os
path = "/path/to/the/file.txt"
delete = os.path.basename(os.path.normpath(path))
print(delete) # will return file.txt
#Remove file.txt in path
path = path.replace(delete,'')
print(path)
OUTPUT :
file.txt
/path/to/the/
Let say you have an array include txt files . you can get all path like
new_path = ['file2.txt','file3.txt','file4.txt']
for get_new_path in new_path:
print(path + get_new_path)
OUTPUT :
/path/to/the/file2.txt
/path/to/the/file3.txt
/path/to/the/file4.txt

Here is what I finally used
iter = len(string.split('/'))-1
directory_path_str = ""
for i in range(0,iter):
directory_path_str = directory_path_str + srtr.split('/')[i] + "/"

Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window': The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded - hex is different

I have a legacy classic asp application, that allows us to upload pdf files. The file is saved as hex into a MS SQL DB into an image column. Here is a snip of the data in the column:
0x4A564245526930784C6A634E436957317462573144516F784944416762324A7144516F...
We are now working on a rework of the app using node.js as our backend and angular4 as the front end. As part of that, we need to be able to download the same file in the new app. If I upload the same file using angular4 then the image data looks like this:
0x255044462D312E370D0A25B5B5B5B50D0A312030206F626A0D0A3C3C2F547970652F43...
As you can see the hex is completely different and I am not sure what is causing this. I have tried to look at the classic asp code, but its very old and there is no special encoding or such that is happening that would cause this.
In Angular4 we are using the standard input type file control with the change event to capture the contents of the file and then saving it into our db:
myReader.onloadend = (f) => {
let image64;
if (myReader.result.toString()) {
let base64id = ';base64,';
image64 = myReader.result.substr(myReader.result.indexOf(base64id) + base64id.length);
}
someService.upload(image64);
}
So nothing crazy going on, right? The problem now is that I am able to download the file uploaded via angular fine, but not the ones that were uploaded via classic asp. I receive the following error when I try:
Failed to execute 'atob' on 'Window': The string to be decoded is not
correctly encoded.
Here is the code used to upload the files via classic ASP:
Public Function Load()
Dim PosBeg, PosEnd, PosFile, PosBound, boundary, boundaryPos, Pos
Dim Name, Value, FileName, ContentType
Dim UploadControl
PosBeg = 1
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,getByteString(chr(13)))
boundary = MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg)
boundaryPos = InstrB(1,m_FormRawData,boundary)
'Get all data inside the boundaries
Do until (boundaryPos=InstrB(m_FormRawData,boundary & getByteString("--")))
Set UploadControl = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
Pos = InstrB(BoundaryPos,m_FormRawData,getByteString("Content-Disposition"))
Pos = InstrB(Pos,m_FormRawData,getByteString("name="))
PosBeg = Pos+6
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,getByteString(chr(34)))
Name = getString(MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg))
PosFile = InstrB(BoundaryPos,m_FormRawData,getByteString("filename="))
PosBound = InstrB(PosEnd,m_FormRawData,boundary)
If PosFile<>0 AND (PosFile<PosBound) Then
PosBeg = PosFile + 10
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,getByteString(chr(34)))
FileName = getString(MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg))
UploadControl.Add "FileName", FileName
Pos = InstrB(PosEnd,m_FormRawData,getByteString("Content-Type:"))
PosBeg = Pos+14
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,getByteString(chr(13)))
ContentType = getString(MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg))
UploadControl.Add "ContentType",ContentType
PosBeg = PosEnd+4
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,boundary)-2
Value = MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg)
UploadControl.Add "value" , Value
m_dicFileData.Add LCase(name), UploadControl
Else
Pos = InstrB(Pos,m_FormRawData,getByteString(chr(13)))
PosBeg = Pos+4
PosEnd = InstrB(PosBeg,m_FormRawData,boundary)-2
Value = getString(MidB(m_FormRawData,PosBeg,PosEnd-PosBeg))
UploadControl.Add "value" , Value
End If
m_dicForm.Add LCase(name), UploadControl
BoundaryPos=InstrB(BoundaryPos+LenB(boundary),m_FormRawData,boundary)
Loop
Load = m_blnSucceed
End Function
Any idea what I can do here to fix this? I need to be able to download the old files as well. Is there an encoding or something else I am missing here?
After further looking into this, it seems the following is causing the error: Node.js will send a buffer to the front-end. On the front-end I then convert the buffer into base64 using the below code:
_arrayBufferToBase64(buffer) {
let base64 = '';
let bytes = new Uint8Array(buffer);
let len = bytes.byteLength;
for (let i = 0; i < len; i++) {
bbase64 += String.fromCharCode(bytes[i]);
}
return base64;
}
The returned base64 from the old classic asp is returned as garbage and looks like this:
*R{£ÌõGpÃì#j¾é>i¿ê A l Ä ð!!H!u!¡!Î!û"'"U""¯"Ý#
(?(q(¢(Ô))8)k))Ð5*hÏ++6+i++Ñ,,9,n,¢,×-''I'z'«'Ü(
3F33¸3ñ4+4e44Ø55M55Â5ý676r6®6é7$7`77×88P88È99B99¼9ù:6:t
I am still not sure how to fix this though.

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