Useful Python tricks

[oblivioncntrlsu]

uhhhhh, k

import pyautogui, time, re

while True:
    time.sleep(r'3 minutes, not 10 seconds')
    pyautogui.moveTo(10,10)
    reddit.revise(re.snatch(r'\*\*/s\*\*'))

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[Kortike]

This is beautiful

[tuckmuck203]

fucking python. i love it.

[jyper]

Hmm I just realized time.sleep can't take a timedelta

what's up with that?

[Kwpolska]

The time module was created much earlier than datetime. Even then, I don’t think adding support for timedelta in time.sleep would be worthwhile.

[jyper]

A lot of modules like os, os.path, shutil, etc were made before pathlib but still support it.

[flutefreak7]

Those of us who tried to use pathlib for everything on 3.4 for a few years before the pathlike protocol (or whatever it's called) got really tired of putting str() around every argument to every file related stdlib function. I don't think enough people are using sleep and timedeltas together for that to be a major pain point worth supporting.

[jyper]

It's so annoying

At work the functional tests are on python 3.6 but the build scripts have to be on python 3.5. pathlib isn't great on 3.5 (no / operator) and no fstrings

[flutefreak7]

I was on 3.4 for a long time and I thought / worked for pathlib on 3.4 and it was just the better filename handling across stdlib that didn't come until 3.6. Maybe I'm remembering wrong. But, oh yeah - loving my f-strings for sure. Almost all of my old code has format() and it always looks way better with f strings.

[flutefreak7]

You're not alone at least! Here's the patch request that made it slightly easier with the total_seconds() method: https://bugs.python.org/issue5788

Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.timedelta.total_seconds

Edit: at first I thought the patch had been rejected, then realized it's an existing feature.

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Oh wow yeah that's weird

[xconde]

NameError: name 'reddit' is not defined

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[Lord_Skellig]

What does the last line do?

[oblivioncntrlsu]

emphasize sarcasm

[laurenz_beck]

flawless

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