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<h1 class="epydoc">Module fileutils</h1><span class="codelink"><a href="fileutils-pysrc.html">source code</a></span><br /><br />
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<dt>File manipulation related functionalities:</dt>
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Scans the filesystem for files that match the selection paths.
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Recursively move a file or directory to another location.</td>
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Catch shutil.rmtree failures on Windows when files are read-only.</td>
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Fixed version of destinscr, that doesn't match dst with same root name.</td>
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Search for executable in the PATH.</td>
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Read the policy number from the policy file.</td>
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Testing policy content loading.</td>
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Given a byte string, guess the encoding.</td>
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returns the md5 value</td>
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Read the policy category from the policy file.</td>
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Return the first free drive found else it raise an exception.</td>
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Substing path as a drive.</td>
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Unsubsting the drive.</td>
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Windows helper function to map a network drive.</td>
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Windows helper function to map a network drive.</td>
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Recursively touches all the files in the source path mentioned.</td>
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<p>Recursively move a file or directory to another location.</p>
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A lot more could be done here... A look at a mv.c shows a lot of
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Catch shutil.rmtree failures on Windows when files are read-only. Thanks Google!
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Read the policy number from the policy file.
strict allows to activate the new policy scanning.
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<p>Given a byte string, guess the encoding.</p>
<p>First it tries for UTF8/UTF16 BOM.</p>
<p>Next it tries the standard 'UTF8', 'ISO-8859-1', and 'cp1252' encodings,
Plus several gathered from locale information.</p>
<p>The calling program <em>must</em> first call locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')</p>
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If unsuccessful it raises a <tt class="rst-docutils literal"><span class="pre">UnicodeError</span></tt>.</p>
<p>This was taken from <a class="rst-reference external" href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/guessing_encoding.shtml" target="_top">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/guessing_encoding.shtml</a></p>
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Recursively touches all the files in the source path mentioned.
It does not touch the directories.
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{codecs.BOM_UTF8: 'utf_8', codecs.BOM_UTF16: 'utf_16', codecs.BOM_UTF1<span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
6_BE: 'utf_16_be', codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE: 'utf_16_le',}
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