Programming Bootcamp for Scientists #35

Bootcamp

  • 00:00 Standard module (standard packages) (slides changed a lot since video recording)

  • 00:42 Some standard packages

  • 02:58 sys

  • 05:14 Writing to the standard error (stderr) and command line redirection

  • 10:13 Current directory (getcwd, pwd, chdir)

  • 14:30 OS dir (mkdir, mkdirs, remove, rmdir)

  • 17:35 python which OS are we running on (os, platform)

  • 18:22 Get process ID

  • 21:08 OS path (basename, dirname, abspath)

  • 23:28 Traverse directory tree - list directories recursively (walk)

  • 24:32 os.path.join

  • 24:58 Directory listing (listdir)

  • 26:10 Listing specific files using glob

  • 27:15 External command with system

  • 28:38 subprocess

  • 29:13 time

  • 32:55 sleep in Python

  • 33:38 back to subprocess

  • 37:09 subprocess in the background

  • 38:15 Accessing the system environment variables from Python

  • 38:59 shutil (copy, copytree, move, rmtree)

  • 39:23 timer

  • 39:41 Current date and time datetime now

  • 40:51 Converting string to datetime

  • 44:03 datetime arithmetics (elapsed time, timedelta)

  • 45:17 Rounding datetime object to nearest second

Author

Gabor Szabo (szabgab)

Gabor Szabo, the author of the Python Maven web site.

Gabor Szabo