Suppose I have two python scripts methods.py and driver.py. methods.py has all the methods defined in it, and driver.py does the required job when I run it. Let’s say I am in a main directory with the two files driver.py and methods.py, and I have n subdirectories in the main directory named subdir1,sub…
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Obtain path of USB Stick with Terminal on macOS with Python3
I‘d like to write a Python program which first detects a new USB disk with Terminal on macOS, then returns me the full path to the stick. I‘ve tried to implement it like that: But this returns me just I have no idea how to get the path of the connected drive, which excludes Macintosh HD… Any Ideas ? Looking…
Create terminal name for execute python script in Ubuntu
I have a python file in: ‘/home/username/scripts/pyscript’ and I want set a word for execute directly this script. I want do this “python3 /home/username/scripts/pyscript/main.py arg1 arg2” but looks like this “myscript arg1 arg2” Is this posible? Thank you anyway. Answer F…
Pycharm’s “stop” does not run finally code
I am running a python project in pycharm. In the code we have a main “try-catch-finally” block e.g. If I run the program in the terminal it will reach the finally block when I press our quit button or “ctrl-c” and perform the post processing required. However, after pressing “sto…
Prevent Kivy leaving debug messages
I have a simple a Kivy interface that also uses the terminal. Example code: The problem is that whenever I start the script I get this: I have found that this is Kivy’s automatic debugging messages. How do I prevent them (or at least hide so that I can use the terminal)? Answer As shown in the docs, you…
Trouble running Python script CRON: Import Error: No Module Named Tweepy
Background: I am following Crontab not running my python script in an attempt to debug and run my python script using CRON. Per SO suggestions, I tried /usr/bin/python /Users/eer/Desktop/myscript.py on the terminal. Problem: However, I get a an error: ImportError: No module named tweepy. So, I tried to pip in…
Matplotlib plots aren’t shown when running file from bash terminal
Plots are normally shown when I run files from the ipython shell or from an ipython notebook, but they don’t show up when I run the file from a bash terminal — everything else works fine when is run from a bash terminal. Sample python script (trial.py): This is what I get (plot doesn’t show …
How can I get the cursor’s position in an ANSI terminal?
I want to get the cursor’s position in a terminal window. I know I can echo -e “33[6n” and read the output -s silently as in this answer, but how can I do this in Python? I’ve tried this contextmanager like this: but it only captures the e[6n (‘x1b[6n’) escape sequence I wr…
Unable to fake terminal input with termios.TIOCSTI
Most of the code samples I’ve seen are trying to read from stdin without local echo. To do this they modify the “local modes” flag to remove the setting to “Echo input characters”. I thought I could just modify the “input modes” flag to TIOCSTI which is for “Ins…
Execute a command on Remote Machine in Python
I am writing a program in python on Ubuntu, to execute a command ls -l on RaspberryPi, connect with Network. Can anybody guide me on how do I do that? Answer Sure, there are several ways to do it! Let’s say you’ve got a Raspberry Pi on a raspberry.lan host and your username is irfan. subprocess It…