When I double press Shift I can write a part of a filename and Pycharm suggests which files match. However in Django framework there a lot of files with the same name (e.g. views.py). Is there a way to search for a file by multiple words which match not only the filename but the path of the file?
For example if there are 2 apps - app1 and app2 and they both have views.py, and if I write "app views" then both files should be suggested. And if I write "app1 views" only the file from app1 should be suggested.
Is there such an action or a configuration option in Pycharm?
If you just type app1/views.py or app2/views.py, only the correct views.py will be shown. It even works for partial matches - 1/iews.py will do a partial match and still show the correct thing.
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I'm using python to download an application from a content distribution network. The application downloads as self extract file cabinet. When executed it creates a directory using a version naming format. For example app-version2/../app.exe, Thus I cannot rely on the folder name as it may change in the future. I'm trying to find the best way to work with the content inside the folder without depending on the actual folder name.
My idea was to rename the folder using os.listdir() and then os.rename(app-version2, myapp) This would work but is not automated. What would be the best automated method to find a folder name that contains version numbers and change that to something more static?
Assuming you want to find the path of the directory which begins with app, you can accomplish this using pathlib.Path:
from pathlib import Path
app_path = next(Path().glob('app*'))
This will give you the path to the first file or directory in your current directory whose name begins with "app".
TLDR
I need to get paths to system directories like "Screenshots":
On an English system. I can just use this one:
C:/Users/User/Pictures/Screenshots
How do I get the path to "Screenshots" directory on a non-English system?
C:/Users/User/Pictures/[NAME]
Description
I have a file manager app, it displays system directories and loads them on click.
The app can run system commands via Powershell and use Node.js (preferred)
Problem
The problem is, it only works if the system has English system language.
Currently, to resolve the "Screenshots" directory path, the app simply joins the User directory with the word "Screenshots"
const pictures = electronRemote.app.getPath('pictures')
const screenshots = PATH.join(pictures, 'Screenshots')
link to the line in code
Expectedly, the C:/Users/User/Screenshots path only exists on English systems.
One way to solve this is to use short names, at least on Windows, I know that system directories have short names like SCREEN~1 and WALLPA~1 for Screenshots and Wallpapers directories, but if I use these names the paths will look like this:
C:/Users/User/SCREEN~1 instead of C:/Users/User/Screenshots throughout the app.
And even if I were to run these paths through a function to convert it to readable name, how would I know which word to replace it with? I need to get the name in the system's language.
Are these translations stored somewhere on the system? Can I just retrieve the translated directory name and use that in the code above?
Question
How do I make it to get / resolve the actual path of system directories like Screenshots and Wallpapers, independently of system locale?
If you know how to do it, could you please suggest the solution for all platforms (Win, Mac, Linux)?
Should I just use the short names like SCREEN~1 and then automatically replace all the occurrences in UI and also filter all paths through a function that replaces this short name with the actual path throughout the whole app? Seems like a lot of work, this approach
I've been developing an nw.js project and use node.js file system functions in it as normal. In my application there is a file manager and I list folders and files according to user navigation. In Windows, for example, if I scan drive C: I get the Turkish named folder "Kullanıcılar" as "Users". I know it's real name in operating system is "Users" and just seen on the screen according to Languages. I can replace names of such folders when dispaying in my file manager but I'm searching for better solution if exists. Thanks in advance.
There's an SO answer here that reads the localized name of a folder in C# using the SHGetFileInfo function which might help you along.
Now I know you didn't ask, but in case you want to know where the information is stored... It's within the directory, in the Desktop.ini file.
For instance, my Windows 10 installation has this in it for "Users":
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=#%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21813
And this for the Images folder within my user folder (bringing this up to show you the additional keys):
[.ShellClassInfo]
LocalizedResourceName=#%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21779
InfoTip=#%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-12688
IconResource=%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll,-113
IconFile=%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll
IconIndex=-236
The #%SystemRoot%\system32\shell32.dll,-21813 points to having to read the MUI (multilingual user interface) resources, key 21813 for the given file (presumably the # means that it's in this file, not this literal value, but don't quote me on that). %SystemRoot% is an environment variable that points to the Windows directory.
The actual MUI files and their locations are handled by Windows (see the MSDN link above), but we'll just happen to handily know that the MUI file for the US English localization of shell32.dll is system32\en-US\shell32.dll.mui.
Opening up that file with Resource Hacker, we can search for 21813 -- and voila! We can find STRINGTABLE resource #1364 that contains:
[...snip...]
21812, "Extras and Upgrades"
21813, "Users"
21814, "Saved Games"
[...snip...]
I unfortunately don't have tr-TR/shell32.dll.mui available, so you'll just have to trust me that you'd find the Kullanıcılar string there.
Does anyone know how to get the full path of a DirectoryEntry object in a Chrome Packaged App, without any tildes or other shortcuts?
I am writing a Google Chrome Packaged App. My app has a button where a user can choose a directory using chrome.fileSystem API. When the directory choice comes back to my app, it is represented by a DirectoryEntry object, which is defined in the File API. The object looks like this in the console:
DirectoryEntry {
filesystem: DOMFileSystem
fullPath: "/to_read"
isDirectory: true
isFile: false
name: "to_read"
__proto__: DirectoryEntry
}
I am using Windows and the full path of the directory is
C:\Users\David\Desktop\to_read
I would like a function that can return that path or something close. Unfortunately, the closest thing I found is chrome.fileSystem.getDisplayPath, but that returns the following:
~\Desktop\to_read
The return value from getDisplayPath is not useful to me, because I want to get the full name of the directory (including the drive) so I can compare it to some other full directory paths I have.
I tried calling toURL() on the DirectoryEntry and it returned an empty string.
A bit about my project: I want to write an iTunes library synchronizer as a Chrome Packaged App. The iTunes library XML file contains full paths like file://localhost/D:/David/Music/Bob/Bob%20Album/01%20Bob.mp3. The user will give my app access to his music folders, and I want to be able to tell if he gave me access to the right folders.
The only full paths available are those returned by getDisplayPath.
The mediaGalleries API may be a better fit for your project: http://developer.chrome.com/apps/mediaGalleries.html#iTunes.
If you have a full path path/to/the/file.mp3 and you want to load the file directly with tis you can do it but the solution is not perfect. Use the chrome.mediaGalleries API to ask where the user saves his music (in your case), then you can write a loop who check if one of the path repository is equal to a gallery.
For example if you got a file path/to/the/file.mp3 from the xml file and your galleries list looks like ["D", "to", "Videos"], write a function to check if each component of the file's path is a gallery. In this case your code will find "to", so you can launch a second function who use "the/file.mp3".
The second function has to use the given path and find if the gallery contains the right folders and finally the right file (use this example by Google). In the case you're trying to find "the/file.mp3" with the gallery to your loop has to find a directory named "the" then "file.mp3" (write a recursive function), if you find the file open it, otherwise come back to the first function if you haven't check all the galleries or all the path's component.
This is currently (2014-01-10) not a feature of Chrome, but I have suggested it and they are working on it:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=322952
In my linux python app for Fedora I want to save user's work to /home/user/Documents/MyCoolApp/TheirGreatWork.txt
But I am not sure how to find the "Documents" folder if the user is not using English as their default language.
What is the right way to determine the right path so that files go in their "Documents" folder.
EDIT
Here is a which comes up if you change locales... showing how paths can get easily changed.
I'd use the subprocess module to get the output of the command xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS. For example:
import subprocess
documents_dir = subprocess.check_output(["xdg-user-dir", "DOCUMENTS"])
print documents_dir # This is what you're looking for.
There is no right way as the user may have changed their locale, which (fortunately) does not rename the directory. If you want a fixed place for files managed by your app, use ~user/.MyCoolApp or let the user specify the directory.