lazy article

[chrisname]

That's because I wrote that before I realised what you were talking about.

[hamsterman]

because I can't do it! Stupid maths teacher didn't even teach us how to do this stuff.

Dude, what grade are you in? There is definetly something wrong with either mine or your education system. I remember doing this 3 - 4 years ago...(depends on which part do you find troublesome)
Ah... time passes quickly.( Sometimes I feel old. I wonder how old people feel..)

[chrisname]

I'm going to assume that "Grade" in your country of origin means "Year" in mine (neither makes much sense if you think about it), so 11; and it's finding x without using a brute-force method that I didn't like doing.

[garob]

Hm maybe it should be something like "Level". It's "Year" over here too.

[firedraco]

!! They should totally name is Level. Then I can say stuff like "Lol man, you gotta be lvl 10 before you can learn that!"

[chrisname]

Lol.

[hamsterman]

In my country it is called 'class' for some reason (not in English). Every time someone asks 'what class are you in?' I get to guess what do they want to know.. Convenient.

[jRaskell]

No, this way I get five minutes just in case I made an accident :)

One of the many uses of a regular backup, which should be done regardless of whether you use the wastebasket or not.

I personally just delete stuff, no need for an undo mechanism, but I can always pull it out of the last backup if I do need it undone (though I can't remember having actually ever done that).

[demosthenes2k8]

Level doesn't work, that's what some people call age! (I'm dead serious...people in my school will think of birthdays as "levelling up")

Seriously though, that script's a bit...absurd. I personally would have it check every 5 seconds or so, and if there's something in the bin, start the countdown to delete in 5 minutes. During the countdown, check every 5 seconds, and if the bin's empty, cancel.

[chrisname]

class hamsterman {
    public:
        lesson* current;
        lesson* next;
}

?

[firedraco]

I'm dead serious...people in my school will think of birthdays as "levelling up"

I have an awesome conversation logged from somewhere of people discussing that >_> I'll need to find it.

[hamsterman]

@chrisname
does that have a point?

[demosthenes2k8]

I think he's asking what grade hamsterman's in this year, and what grade next year

[chrisname]

does that have a point?

Not at all; I was just bored at the time.

import os
import time

trash = ".local/share/Trash/" # Location of trashcan
cmnd  = "rm -rf " # This will change on non-*nix systems

def has_files(directory):
    i, files, fname = 0, [], ""

    for fname in os.listdir(directory):
        i += 1
        print("Found file/dir %s" % fname)
    return (False, True) [i > 0]

def clear(directory):
    os.system(cmnd + directory + "*")

while True:
    if has_files(trash):        # Found files in trash directory
            print("Found files in trash.")
            time.sleep(300)     # Sleep for 5 minutes
            if has_files(trash) # Check again
                print("Emptying trash...")
                clear(trash)    # Clear the folder
                print("Done.")
            else                # Files must have been deleted externally...
                print("Files appear to have been deleted.")
    else:
        print("No files found in trash...")
    time.sleep(5) # Wait 5 seconds until next check 

fix'd.

[demosthenes2k8]

Only time I think a problem would come from that is when a person puts a file into the Bin, then undeletes it, and 4:59 later "deletes" something else accidentally and it vanishes.

[DrChill]

can't you make it check to see if they added another file?

[helios]

Yep. What you should do is keep a map (or some other associative array) of filenames to times. After each second decrement all times by 1, and delete those that were 0 before the decrement.

[chrisname]

Those are good ideas; but that would make it waaaaay more complex than I need it to be.

Then again, it does sound fun...

[JCED]

Then again, it does sound fun...

It's Python; everything in Python is fun.

[chrisname]

Lol, ok :P I'll do it tonight; then finish my disk program.