Similar to doing an lsof. I want to tell if a file is done copying before I process it. The copying is external to the script. I originally checked the mod time, waited an interval, then checked the ...

I'm running some simulations using the joblib library. For that, I have some number of parameter combinations, each of which I run 100,000 times. I'd now like to write the result of each simulation to ...

Writing to files is one of the most important things you will learn in any new programming language. This allows you to save user data for future reference, to manipulate large data sets, or to build ...

Python is a language that seems easy to do, especially for prototyping, but make sure not to make these common mistakes when ...

Think it's complex to connect your Python program to the UNIX shell? Think again! In past articles, I've looked into concurrency in Python via threads (see "Thinking Concurrently: How Modern Network ...

Python -O won’t magically make every script faster, but in the right workloads it’s a free win—here’s how to test it safely.