On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:10:15PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote: > Marc Hohl wrote: > > I found something useful here: > > http://code.google.com/p/pymc/issues/detail?id=230 > > > > The program is simple but seems to work: > > Why not use a sed one-liner?
Because not all OSes have sed. And even those that *do* have sed, have horrible inconsistent command-line options. Over the past 10 years, lilypond has been gradually using python more and more, and phasing out other stuff. I think that's a great thing, since python is easy to install, it's amazingly flexible and powerful. As for this specific case, it's true that sed is faster. Running strip-whitespace.py on all the docs might take something like 3 seconds, whereas sed would probably finish in less than 0.3 seconds. But that's totally negligible, especially when considered against making things harder for contributors on windows. Cheers, - Graham _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
