How to get an environment variable in Python?

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In Python, how to get the value (string) of an environment variable? In Python, all environment variables can be accessed directly through os.environ import os print os.environ[‘HOME’] If the environment variable is not present, it will raise a KeyError. You can use get to return None if the environment variable is not present: print os.environ.get(‘ENV_MIGHT_EXIST’)
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How to get hostname in Python on Linux?

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In Python, how to get hostname as the command hostname does on Linux? In Python, you can get the hostname by the socket.gethostname() library function in the socket module: import socket hostname = socket.gethostname() Reference: https://www.systutorials.com/dtivl/20/how-to-get-the-hostname-of-the-node?show=34#a34

How to put files with spaces in names into HDFS?

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I got this error when I tried to save a file with a space in its name into HDFS: $ hdfs dfs -put -f “/home/u1/testa/test a” “/u1/testa/test a” put: unexpected URISyntaxException while the HDFS seems allow spaces in its file names: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.3/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/filesystem/model.html . How to achieve the effect of saving the files with spaces in
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How to get an environment variable in Python?

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In Python, how to get an environment variable? In Python, you may use this piece of code to get an environment variable: os.environ.get(‘ENV_MIGHT_EXIST’) or this piece of code: os.getenv(‘ENV_MIGHT_EXIST’) It will return None if the environment variable is not present. Reference and for more ways, please check https://www.systutorials.com/dtivl/13/how-to-get-an-environment-variable?show=80#answer-80 .

How to set process with lowest priority?

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In system, sometimes, we need backstage threads with very very low priority since it cannot preempt any normal process asks for CPU. SCHED_IDLE class satisfies this requirement which has the priority lower than “nice=19” of CFS. Following code does this. 241 void set_idle_priority(void) { 242 struct sched_param param; 243 param.sched_priority = 0; 244 int s
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How to read the whole file content into a string in Go?

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How to read the whole file content into a string in Go? You can use the ReadFile() func from the io/ioutil package in Go to read the whole file content: func ReadFile(filename string) ([]byte, error) For example, read file filepath content and check the error: if bytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filepath); err != nil { log.Fatal(“Failed
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How to use ioprio_set in linux c

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Since there is no glibc wrapper for ioprio_set in linux c, we need to call this API with some definition. Using syscall in linux as follows. syscall(SYS_ioprio_set, IOPRIO_WHO_PROCESS, pid, IOPRIO_PRIO_CLASS(IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE)); Some other definitions to declare above macros. 69 enum { 70 IOPRIO_CLASS_NONE, 71 IOPRIO_CLASS_RT, 72 IOPRIO_CLASS_BE, 73 IOPRIO_CLASS_IDLE, 74 }; 75 76 enum { 77
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How to install encfs on CentOS 6?

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I noticed your answer on configuring encfs on CentOS 6. I had difficulties installing encfs on CentOS 6. How did you install it? Thanks. For CentOS 6, I used a slightly old version (version 1.7.4) using an RPM built for by PUIAS: For x86-64 version: # yum install http://puias.princeton.edu/data/puias/6/x86_64/os/Addons/fuse-encfs-1.7.4-1.puias6.x86_64.rpm For i686 version: # yum install
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