Jan 29, 2025 · Python for DevOps repo with useful python scripts to learn and implement in your day-to-day devops automation tasks.

Feb 8, 2011 · Consider the following Python code: import os print os.getcwd() I use os.getcwd() to get the script file's directory location. When I run the script from the command line it gives me the correct …

The problem is that crontab runs the script from a different working directory, so trying to open ./log/bar.log fails. Is there a nice way to tell the script to change the working directory to the script's …

Jun 4, 2010 · I have Python script bgservice.py and I want it to run all the time, because it is part of the web service I build. How can I make it run continuously even after I logout SSH?

How do I get the path of a the Python script I am running in? I was doing dirname(sys.argv[0]), however on Mac I only get the filename - not the full path as I do on Windows.

How do I call an external command within Python as if I had typed it in a shell or command prompt?

I wrote a program in IDLE to tokenize text files and it starts to tokeniza 349 text files! How can I stop it? How can I stop a running Python program?

What's the easiest, tersest, and most flexible method or library for parsing Python command line arguments?

Jun 13, 2013 · Is there a way to do the reverse i.e convert from a python script to a notebook. For ex - having some specialized docstrings that are parsed into cells ?

Apr 4, 2014 · You can use the sys module like this to pass command line arguments to your Python script.