Paul McGuire wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Aahz wrote: > > > Trust the computer, the computer is your friend. > > > > However, the computer isn't a fuckin' mind reader. > > > > If you're going to post source code on the usenet, don't > > have lines longer than 72 characters. Otherwise you'll > > find your code has wrapped lines. This not only causes > > syntax errors in your choose and print statements but > > also fucks up the formatting of of printed paragraphs. > > > > Stupid human. > > > > I copy-and-pasted to a file named para1.py, then wrote the > following python script with pyparsing to fix the erroneous > line breaks. > > -- Paul > > =============================== > from pyparsing import * > > extraLineBreak = White(" ",exact=1) + LineEnd().suppress() > text = file("para1.py").read() > newtext = extraLineBreak.transformString(text) > file("para2.py","w").write(newtext) Damn, that was pretty neat! You learn something new every day.
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