added a few more functions in networking and basic_functions

Author: CorruptedFile2021

.gitignore

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
-/testing.py
+/testing.py
+*__pycache__

basic_functions/basic_functions.py

@@ -1,8 +1,28 @@
 import platform
+import pathlib
 
 def get_os_name():
     os_name = platform.system() # Gets Operating System Name, for example: Windows, Linux
     version = platform.release() # Gets Release Version of Operating System, for example: will return 10 if it is a Windows 10 machine
 
     return os_name, version # return the info
 
+def file_exists(path:str):
+    """checks whether the following file exists. Use directory_exists to check if a directory exists"""
+
+    file = pathlib.Path(path)
+    if file.exists():
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+
+
+def directory_exists(path:str):
+    """checks whether the following directory exists. Use file_exists to check if a file exists"""
+
+    file = pathlib.Path(path)
+    if file.is_dir():
+        return True
+    else:
+        return False
+    

networking/networking.py

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
+from basic_functions import basic_functions
 import socket
+import requests
+import urllib.request
+import webbrowser
 
 def get_private_ip():
     """returns the Private ip address of the current device, May get the private ip for a virtualbox/vmware apdater if it exists on the system"""
@@ -12,6 +16,31 @@ def get_device_hostname():
     """returns the current Device Hostname"""
 
     device_hostname = socket.gethostname()
-
     return device_hostname
 
+def get_public_ip():
+    """returns the Public Ip address of the current device."""
+
+    ip = requests.get('https://api.ipify.org').content.decode('utf8')
+    return ip
+
+def download_file(url:str,file_name:str,overwrite_file=False):
+    """downloads a file from a url
+    Arguments:
+        url: url of where to download the file from
+        file_name: the name of the file after downloading
+        overwrite_file: replace the file if a file of the same name exists
+    
+    """
+    
+
+    if overwrite_file == False:
+        if basic_functions.file_exists(file_name):
+            raise FileExistsError("a file name already exists with the filename you provided since the overwrite_file argument is False. An error has been raised, Change it to True to overwrite that file.")
+        else:
+            urllib.request.urlretrieve(url=url,filename=file_name)
+    else:
+        urllib.request.urlretrieve(url=url,filename=file_name)
+        
+def open_url(url:str):
+    webbrowser.open(url=url)