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Since many Vim plugins depend on Python; updating Vim often requires a Python update. We will see how to resolve such plugin dependencies using an embeddable Python distribution. Does Python already work? Before starting, check whether you happen to have the correct version of Python installed. :echo has(‘python3’) If this prints 1 then you are …

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Presenting FFprogress, a Python program for showing a progress bar for FFmpeg. It uses the python library tqdm to show the progress bar. I have not tested it properly in Linux; it seems to work. Limitations FFprogress has the following limitations. Possible Unicode problem on Windows The Unicode version of tqdm might not work on Windows. …

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Most of the media player software lack the option to create playlists with relative paths. Absolute paths make it difficult to move and organize media folders without breaking playlists. Let us see how to create playlists with relative paths using Bash, Powershell, and Python. I am not sure how many media players support relative paths …

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Natural Sort is a hazy concept; it basically means something like human-friendly sort; it could be useful if the strings being sorted are going to be visible to the user. Difference between normal sort and natural sort Let us look at an example, we consider the list [1, 2, 10] to be an ascending order …

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