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>>> t = Template('Return the $item to $owner.') >>> d = dict(item='unladen swallow') >>> t.substitute(d) Traceback (most recent call last): . . . KeyError: 'owner' >>> t.safe_substitute(d) 'Return the unladen swallow to $owner.'
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Template subclasses can specify a custom delimiter. For example, a batch renaming utility for a photo browser may elect to use percent signs for placeholders such as the current date, image sequence number, or file format::
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>>> import time, os.path >>> photofiles = ['img_1074.jpg', 'img_1076.jpg', 'img_1077.jpg'] >>> class BatchRename(Template): ... delimiter = '%' >>> fmt = input('Enter rename style (%d-date %n-seqnum %f-format): ') Enter rename style (%d-date %n-seqnum %f-format): Ashley_%n%f >>> t = BatchRename(fmt) >>> date = time.strftime('%d%b%y') >>> for i, filename in enumerate(photofiles): ... base, ext = os.path.splitext(filename) ... newname = t.substitute(d=date, n=i, f=ext) ... print('{0} --> {1}'.format(filename, newname)) img_1074.jpg --> Ashley_0.jpg img_1076.jpg --> Ashley_1.jpg img_1077.jpg --> Ashley_2.jpg
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Another application for templating is separating program logic from the details of multiple output formats. This makes it possible to substitute custom templates for XML files, plain text reports, and HTML web reports.
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Working with Binary Data Record Layouts
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The :mod:`struct` module provides :func:`pack` and :func:`unpack` functions for working with variable length binary record formats. The following example shows how to loop through header information in a ZIP file without using the :mod:`zipfile` module. Pack codes ``"H"`` and ``"I"`` represent two and four byte unsigned numbers respectively. The ``"<"`` indicates that they are standard size and in little-endian byte order::
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import struct data = open('myfile.zip', 'rb').read() start = 0 for i in range(3): # show the first 3 file headers start += 14 fields = struct.unpack('<IIIHH', data[start:start+16]) crc32, comp_size, uncomp_size, filenamesize, extra_size = fields start += 16 filename = data[start:start+filenamesize] start += filenamesize extra = data[start:start+extra_size] print(filename, hex(crc32), comp_size, uncomp_size) start += extra_size + comp_size # skip to the next header
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Multi-threading
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Threading is a technique for decoupling tasks which are not sequentially dependent. Threads can be used to improve the responsiveness of applications that accept user input while other tasks run in the background. A related use case is running I/O in parallel with computations in another thread.
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The following code shows how the high level :mod:`threading` module can run tasks in background while the main program continues to run::