utility

I'm trying to write function similar to http://whatismyudid.com/ that, then approved, will return the users UDID and store it to a database for future reference with that user. I have written a .mobileconfig xml doc that opens in the Profile Installer just fine but when I tell it to install the profile it responds with [alert] Invalid Profile but no alert body. No description, no code, no help. I'm new to the mobile configuration game so any help would thrill me. Here is my configuration file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http:/

I have a class full of utility functions. Instantiating an instance of it makes no semantic sense, but I still want to call its methods. What is the best way to deal with this? Static class? Abstract? David Robles Private constructor and static methods on a class marked as final. According to the great book "Effective Java" : Item 4: Enforce noninstantiability with a private constructor - Attempting to enforce noninstantiability by making a class abstract does not work. - A default constructor is generated only if a class contains no explicit constructors, so a class can be made

touch is a Unix utility that sets the modification and access times of files to the current time of day. If the file doesn't exist, it is created with default permissions. How would you implement it as a Python function? Try to be cross platform and complete. (Current Google results for "python touch file" are not that great, but point to os.utime .) voidnologo Looks like this is new as of Python 3.4 - pathlib . from pathlib import Path Path('path/to/file.txt').touch() This will create a file.txt at the path. -- Path.touch(mode=0o777, exist_ok=True) Create a file at this given path. If mode is