Python

Checking if object on FTP server is file or directory using Python and ftplib

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Using Python and ftplib, I’m writing a generic function to check whether the items in an FTP directory are either files or directories. Since using the MLSD function might not necessarily work with all servers ( one of my use cases does not provide for it ) I have resorted to this effective but crude manner of determining it, by attempting to change directory to the object and if the object is a file, an exception is raised and the file type is set accordingly.

Text difference algorithm

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I need an algorithm that can compare two text files and highlight their difference and ( even better!) can compute their difference in a meaningful way (like two similar files should have a similarity score higher than two dissimilar files, with the word “similar” defined in the normal terms). It sounds easy to implement, but it’s not.

PYTHONPATH on Linux

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I’m novice in this, and I have started learning Python, but I have some questions that I’m not be able to understand, What exactly is the PYTHONPATH (on Ubuntu)? Is it a folder? Is Python provided by default on Ubuntu, or does it have to be installed explicitly? Where is the folder in which all … Read more