filesystems

Server.MapPath(“.”), Server.MapPath(“~”), Server.MapPath(@”\”), Server.MapPath(“/”). What is the difference?

Server.MapPath specifies the relative or virtual path to map to a physical directory. Server.MapPath(“.”)1 returns the current physical directory of the file (e.g. aspx) being executed Server.MapPath(“..”) returns the parent directory Server.MapPath(“~”) returns the physical path to the root of the application Server.MapPath(“https://stackoverflow.com/”) returns the physical path to the root of the domain name (is … Read more

How to use glob() to find files recursively?

pathlib.Path.rglob Use pathlib.Path.rglob from the the pathlib module, which was introduced in Python 3.5. from pathlib import Path for path in Path(‘src’).rglob(‘*.c’): print(path.name) If you don’t want to use pathlib, use can use glob.glob(‘**/*.c’), but don’t forget to pass in the recursive keyword parameter and it will use inordinate amount of time on large directories. … Read more

comments longer than one line

&& means boolean AND the test for equality is == not =, You would need to have each indicator tested individually. if ((c == “https://stackoverflow.com/”) && (c == ‘*’) && (c == ‘\n’)) Of course this would always generate FALSE as it is an impossible statement. Even if the line worked the way you think, … Read more