google news python script

Author: Broundon Seino

python/google_news.py

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+# Description   : This will scan the current directory and all subdirectories and display the size.
+
+import os
+import sys      # Load the library module and the sys module for the argument vector'''
+try:
+    directory = sys.argv[1]   # Set the variable directory to be the argument supplied by user.
+except IndexError:
+    sys.exit("Must provide an argument.")
+
+dir_size = 0    # Set the size to 0
+fsizedicr = {'Bytes': 1,
+             'Kilobytes': float(1) / 1024,
+             'Megabytes': float(1) / (1024 * 1024),
+             'Gigabytes': float(1) / (1024 * 1024 * 1024)}
+for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(directory):      # Walk through all the directories. For each iteration, os.walk returns the folders, subfolders and files in the dir.
+    for file in files:                              # Get all the files
+        filename = os.path.join(path, file)
+        dir_size += os.path.getsize(filename)       # Add the size of each file in the root dir to get the total size.
+
+fsizeList = [str(round(fsizedicr[key] * dir_size, 2)) + " " + key for key in fsizedicr] # List of units
+
+if dir_size == 0: print ("File Empty") # Sanity check to eliminate corner-case of empty file.
+else:
+  for units in sorted(fsizeList)[::-1]: # Reverse sort list of units so smallest magnitude units print first.
+      print ("Folder Size: " + units)