There is some good info here on how to 'touch' a file from within python:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1158076/implement-touch-using-python
Sidebar, there is a really good utility on the Mac called "Dash":
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-docs-snippets/id458034879?mt=12
And some info here on how you can enable lookups from BBEdit:
http://bbedit-hints.tumblr.com/post/23037132326/using-bbedit-with-dash-app-for-code-lookup
It is pay-for but I use it a lot to look up functions/methods when I am coding,
and the python documentation is pretty good.
F.
On Apr 28, 2013, at 8:49 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 28 Apr 2013, at 17:13 , François Schiettecatte <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> sys.stdin is an iterator not a list so addressing an element in the way you
>> are doing it won't work, you would need to wrap sys.stdin in a list() to
>> cause it to read all the lines, and then address the element, for example
>
> I knew I was going to hate python, and I do. My script was failing because
> there were spaces indenting a line instead of a tab.
>
> I finally, after much struggling, ended up with this:
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import sys
> import datetime
> import re
>
> for line in sys.stdin:
> line=line.strip()
> myDate, myPath = line.split(' ',1)
> myDate = str(datetime.date.fromordinal(int(myDate)))
> myDate = re.sub('[^\d]','',myDate)
> print 'touch -ct {}0001 {}'.format(myDate,myPath)
>
> Thank you all for your help.
>
> Now, one other thing, if I wanted to execute the touch command (I don't, in
> this case), could I do that within the python via some sort of exec()
> function?
>
>
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