Repo for my development works-in-progress Not meant for public release

• emptyTrash.py

  • os.path.expanduser('~')
    Get the value of $HOME on any particular machine to pre-pend to a path
  • if os.listdir(path[:-1]) == []
    This checks if a dir is empty. The [:-1] is to slice off the last char of the path string.
  • subprocess.check_call(command + filePath, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True)
    Call a arbitrary shell command. Stderr goes to console output.

• setupVSCode.py

  • IsDownloadable()
    uses requests library to get the headers of a URL and checks content-type for downloadability (currently just checks 'text' vs 'html')
  • DownloadVSCodePkg(url)
    Downloads a file from a URL. Opens it in the Downloads dir of the machine and uses the 'write binary' method.
  • pipeToDevNull = open(os.devnull, 'w')
    USAGE: subprocess.check_call("ls " + outputName, stdout=pipeToDevNull, stderr=pipeToDevNull, shell=True)
  • subprocess.check_call
    USAGE:

    try:
        subprocess.check_call("ls " + outputName, stdout=pipeToDevNull, stderr=pipeToDevNull, shell=True)
        return True
    except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
        return False```
    
    

• setup-python-modules.py

  • OSType = platform.linux_distribution()
    How to get the OSType through the platform library.

• installWebAssembly.py

  • os.mkdir(path, 0o0644)
    Create dir with least privelege permissions. Octals in Py3.x are in format 0oXX. Leading 0's allowed in this format, but not decimal. 0o0644 translates to '-rw-r--r--'