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Comment on Recursive File and Folder Listing VB.NET by FlashBang

FlashBang — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:42:56 +0000

My apologies, the try catch loop was in the wrong place.
It should encase the following line only:

RecursiveSearch(fileObject.FullName, searchpattern, recursionon)

Comment on Iterating over a custom object in python by Chris

Chris — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 04:08:08 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial, this was very useful.

After implementing your solution, realized I couldn’t find a way to access the declared name of an object member using your code snippet, so I modified it slightly.

In case anyone else had the same question:

for k, v in myObj.__dict__.iteritems():
print k, v, type(v).__name__

Comment on Count the duplicates in a Python List by Diego Castro

Diego Castro — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:02:51 +0000

Thanks man,
Just a correction … the Set on the seco0nd line should be set (lowercase)

(at least changing the case made it work here)

Comment on Python reverse string method by adam

adam — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:39:01 +0000

Thanks best piece of code I’ve read all week

Comment on Recursive File and Folder Listing VB.NET by FlashBang

FlashBang — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:13:25 +0000

Hi,
The code given does seem to have a quirk finding folders, the code below fixes that and adds a search string and the possibility to turn recursion on or off. There is also a try catch loop to deal with the fact you may not have some folder access.

Private Function RecursiveSearch(ByVal path As String, _
Optional ByVal searchpattern As String = “*”, _
Optional ByVal recursionon As Boolean = False) _
As Boolean
Dim dirInfo As New IO.DirectoryInfo(path)
Dim fileObject As FileSystemInfo
If recursionon Then
Try
For Each fileObject In dirInfo.GetDirectories
RecursiveSearch(fileObject.FullName, searchpattern, recursionon)
Next
Catch ex As Exception

End Try

End If

For Each fileObject In dirInfo.GetFiles
If fileObject.FullName Like tbSearchString.Text Then
Console.WriteLine(fileObject.FullName)
End If
Next
Return True
End Function

Comment on iPhone SDK Cocoa Objective-C Learnings by Mital

Mital — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 14:19:49 +0000

Hey its a great thing and thanx to share it.

But I also have same question as Narender Mudgal asked.

Can you please answer it? I know that we need to release in that case also but how to make it autorelease?

Comment on Recursive File and Folder Listing VB.NET by Tim Cullen

Tim Cullen — Mon, 03 May 2010 21:02:15 +0000

First of all, great solution! Works like a charm for what I needed t for.

Seconds, this comment is a little late but I believe the reason Kris’ solution picked up more folders is because the attributes are housed as either integers or big integers and the AND’ing process she uses caught more of them: http://www.adminscripteditor.com/papers/SSC/enumerations.asp

Comment on Iterating over a custom object in python by lefthand

lefthand — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:31:09 +0000

This may be 2 years later.But i really want to say thank you .The blog post really made me understand so concept i amwas battling with

Comment on Convert m4a to mp3 by Luke Carrier

Luke Carrier — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:09:05 +0000

I liked this idea so much that I wrote a script based on it that’s a little more complete. If anyone’s interested, take a look at:

http://lukecarrier.me/2010/03/13/automatically-convert-your-itunes-library-to-mp3-with-bonkenc-and-python/

Thanks for a great idea!

Comment on iPhone SDK Cocoa Objective-C Learnings by IPhone Memory Management « Imamraza’s Blog

IPhone Memory Management « Imamraza’s Blog — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:17:51 +0000

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