Prints all paths in your bash environment

This function will interpolate the points on a line. When tracking mouse movements, not every point is captured. This is especially true the faster the mouse moves. This function will allow you to fill in the gap of points between two recorded positions. It takes two point values (object with an "x" and a "y" property) and the distance to move forward for each new point to be added (e.g. spacing). The result is an array containing all the points between the two points provided in the function call.

"Gets the path for the executable file that started the application, not including the executable name." Quoted from MSDN ~~ http://bit.ly/hwr8qp

Get current page name (file name) with extension (if any).

Dealing with directory paths which start with ~ which are passed as paramaters, to os module functions.

Here is what I think python doesn't do for me:

>>> import os
# suppose my home = curdir = /home/rv
>>> os.path.abspath('.') 
'/home/rv'

Now if I want to go to folder /home/rv/test if there is no folder by name /home/rv/~/test/

# This is what happens by default.
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'/home/rv/~/test'

>>> os.chdir('/home/rv/some/dir')
# doesn't matter if the resulting path exists or not.
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'home/rv/some/dir/~/test'

This would be more sensible I guess:

# if /home/rv/~/test doesn't exist
>>> os.path.abspath('~/test')
'/home/rv/test'

Provides a _paths_from_path_patterns that will generate a list of paths from a list of path patterns. A "path pattern" can include glob chars. By default it generates a recursive listing of file paths, but: recursion can be turned off, file and/or dir paths can be listed. It supports a list of glob exclusions or inclusions.

This function makes it easy to implement typical "-r|--recursive" and "-x|--exclude" options for command-line scripts that work on given file paths. See example usages below.

Note: I use a leading _ on function names because my typical usage of my recipes is as re-usable internal functions in Python modules.

While dealing with paths, it's often necessary to make sure they all have the same structure so any operation you perform on them can be reliable, specially when it comes to comparing two or more paths. Unusual paths like "/this//is//a///path" or "another/path" can cause unexpected behavior in your application and this is where this function comes into play.

This modules provides a few handy functions to retrieve the path names of some windows system directories from the registry [1] and the environment. These path names can be different depending on OS version, installation language, current user and personal setup. Because of this, they should not be included statically in your program.