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    I haven't lost the files from my source DIR, it's all still there and all is still good. My issues are only in the destination DIR.
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    Sorry, wrong forum.
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    I punched in a model I seen on a sticker on the back of the case, this site is what I found -> http://www.ascendtech.us/gateway-gt4024-gt4026e-motherboard_i_mb4gat4001071r3.aspx It shows a micro-BTX, so I'm …
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    It's an older Gateway tower, IDE connectors on the motherboard.
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    The files I'm working on are all binary files, .mp3, .flac, & .wav. Does that help at all?
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    I tried tag as both a string and as bytes. I used `tag = 'artist='` as well as `tag = b'artist='`. I get the same error either way.
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    vegaseat If it's a directory that is already in PYTHONPATH, couldn't it already have modules in it? If so, would there already be an `__init__.py file`? Gribouillis Will the line …
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    Thanks. That should workout good. Could you explain the `__init__.py` line a little more though please.
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    (Linux) I just installed eyed3 for python using apt-get, everything installed fine but when I tried to import eyed3 I got a trackback error, no such module. Do I need …
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    pyinstaller to make an executable, wouldn't that eliminate the need for the python to be installed on the system?
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    I know that all you really need to execute a python program is the python interpriter, what what if your program uses config files that might be in /etc, ~/.program, …
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    Gribouillis I'm trying your re method but I'm running into a bump. #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import re file = sys.argv[1] f = open(file, 'rb') #search_string = b"br'(?i)artist\=" for line …
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    Why did s[20:10] not return from index 20 plus the next ten bytes? My thinking was this is how it works, clearly I'm wrong. One other thing, if I do …
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    wooee, in that program line is 658 bytes long so starting from index 0 and moving 10 bytes shouldn't be a problem but if I change print(line[seek_position:]) to print(line[seek_position:10]) it …
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    Thanks woooee. I'm not getting the whole line but I have two more questions. Can I always be sure that the metadata artist & album tags will not be split …
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    I mean the code within the if block. Even when I take away all the extra 'or' conditions in the while loop and have it only search for the exact …
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    vim is good, for a graphical editor I would go with WingIDE.
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    Thanks Gribouillis, I'll give that a try. Do you see where my logic went wrong?
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    #!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import re file = sys.argv[1] f = open(file, 'rb') seek_positoin = 0 artist_string = b'artist=' line = b'' f.seek(seek_positoin) while artist_string.upper() or artist_string.lower() not in line: …
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    I like WingIDE, you can det it from http://www.wingware.com It's not free but it's a good IDE designed specifically for python.
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    Why am I getting the above error message when I run this program? I'm running this program with an mp3 file as an argument, the mp3 file is in the …
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    Thanks Gribourillis, I think I've got it now.
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    Gribouillis thanks, this line worked -> `newchar = newchar + char[counter:counter + 1]` The only problem now is that the title is wrapped in b'', so it comes out like …
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    Gribouillis shouldn't char[counter] give me the byte residing at the index of counter, and not an actual int? I also tried your rstrip example but this is what I got. …
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    I'm trying to write a program to get the artist and album from mp3 files. A simple test run on the Alice in Chanins song Rooster yielded this result -> …

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