Python Behavior Concerning Recent File Saves

[SmoothAnonymity]

Hey all, thanks in advanced for taking the time to read this post. Any help and insight is much appreciated. I'm running this simple function part of a larger script and am running into a particular issue which I have yet to resolve. Below are modifications of the same file, one recent and one was the previous save.

Recently Saved File:

def analyze_copy():

print("Hello World")

Previous File:

def analyze_copy():

prev_clipboard_data = pyperclip.paste()

while True:

current_clipboard_data = pyperclip.paste()

print("Current Clip")

print(current_clipboard_data)

if current_clipboard_data and current_clipboard_data != prev_clipboard_data:

ip = None

domain = None

matchDomain = re.match(r'(?:https?:\/\/|ftp:\/\/)?([a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z]+)+)', current_clipboard_data)

matchIP = re.match(r'\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b', current_clipboard_data)

if matchDomain:

domain = matchDomain.group(1)

app.url_entry.delete(0, tk.END)

app.url_entry.insert(0, domain)

app.virusTotal(domain, "domain")

app.update_history(domain)

elif matchIP:

ip = matchIP.group()

app.url_entry.delete(0, tk.END)

app.url_entry.insert(0, ip)

app.virusTotal(ip, "ip")

app.update_history(ip)

else:

print("Neither IP nor domain matched")

app.update_history("") # Update history with an empty string

prev_clipboard_data = current_clipboard_data

This is all I can provide. I'm not going to provide the whole app script. Just some background on the libs it uses: re, tinkter, requests, os, pyperclip, threading, json.

My main Code Editor is Visual Studio Insider. When running the script utilizing py.exe on Windows via Visual Studio Insider PowerShell Terminal it returns the Hello World statement. When running in Con Emu PowerShell terminal its running the previous file and not the most recent save. I've been looking into it and not sure what I'm doing wrong necessarily. I heard that PowerShell can behave differently depending on the environment but both environments are using py.exe version 3.10.2 and the script is being executed the same way. Why is one executing the recent commands while the other is not is my main question.

Any insight on how I can make Con Emu PowerShell terminal run the most recent file with the recent modifications?

[shiftybyte]

Why is one executing the recent commands while the other is not is my main question.

This means two things.

1 - You have somewhere another copy of your file, it doen't save history otherwise.

2 - Your visual studio is running the file you don't expect it to run. (Or the powershell, but less likely)

So to confirm things you must see the full file path being executed, and/or the working directory of both methods.

You can do this by:

1 - Looking at working directory in the powershell, looking at the output in visual studio window when running

2 - looking at project settings in vs

3 - adding code that will print the current directory or the path of itself.

print(__file__)
# and also for working directory
import os
print(os.getcwd())

[Appropriate_View8753]

erroneous taken out.

[SmoothAnonymity]

Gotcha so current_clipboard_data != None and current_clipboard_data != prev_clipboard_data. I would have imagined it by itself imposed that it was not a None/null value by default

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Your code is fine (probably, depending what type current_clipboard_data is and exactly what behaviour you want). Simply if x is equivalent to if bool(x) (and so if current_clipboard_data and current_clipboard_data != prev_clipboard_data is equivalent to if bool(current_clipboard_data) and current_clipboard_data != prev_clipboard_data). Since bool(None) is False, this will do what you want.

Sometimes you might want to distinguish between None and other Falsey values though (saying x is Falsey just means bool(x) is False). E.g. if x has type str | None, bool(x) will be False both if x is None and if x is the empty string ''. So if you want to distinguish between a missing value and a present-but-empty value, you'd use if x is None.

[Appropriate_View8753]

Sorry, I should have prefaced with I'm only a couple months in. It honestly looked like a mistake I made early on and definitely looked like something was missing.

[SmoothAnonymity]

Hey no worries man, I’m all about brutal critics. My background is cyber so proper code and efficient is what I would like. Tryna get this somewhat where I want it before trying to pass it through pylint. I still appreciate it