I’m a Unix guy, but the participants in my Python classes overwhelmingly use Windows. Inevitably, when we get to talking about working with files in Python, someone will want to open a file using the complete path to the file. And they’ll end up writing something like this: filename = ...
One of the most powerful Unix command-line utilities is “find” — but it also has a huge number of options, and most of the documentation I’ve read on “find” is hard to follow and understand. That’s a shame, because once you understand what “find” does and how it works, you ...