reStructuredText

Files with the extension rst are reStructuredText files, a plain text format used by Python to generate documentation with more complex formatting. They can be used with the Docutils library, but if you're looking for a quick and easy to convert .rst files, try installing the RST (reStructuredText) Viewer and Editor app for Chrome.

Enter the text from the .rst file on the left, click the 'View as PDF' button at the top, and on the right a formatted PDF will be generated.

Head's up! Check your Python modules

Head's up! Be on the lookout for malicious Python libraries! As reported by Developer Tech and Naked Security there is an imposter version of the popular library dateutill which is called python3-dateutil with a one '1' at the end instead of a lowercase L, 'l'. The malicious library can steal keys for Secure Shell (SSH), a network encryption protocol, and GnuPG Privacy guard, encryption software.

You can confirm which python modules you have installed with the pip freeze command. In your scripts directory simply enter, 'pip freeze'.

. . . and a list of installed modules will be generated.

Python fnmatch script to find files of a particular type

In Python you can use the fnmatch module to search file names in a given directory.

1. Begin by importing the fnmatch module and the os module.

2. Enter the path of the directory you need to search, and the pattern of the file type you're searching for:

3. Then enter the below script. OS.walk will generate a list of file names by going through a directory.