Seebs <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> writes: > On 2010-10-06, Diez B. Roggisch <de...@web.de> wrote: >> With an impressive amount of technological experience under his belt. So >> I'm a bit aghast to see him struggle with this rather simple >> problem. Thus my question... > > It does seem a bit odd. > > I mean, if I had a short time line to get something converted to Python, > I'd probably ask for help, but then, I wouldn't take a gig where I needed to > quickly move something into an unfamiliar language. I'm happily puttering > away slowly at converting a couple of things to Python to get the hang of it, > carefully selecting things with no impending deadlines.
>From the look of it... he's just trying to get a freebie on a homework assignment. It certainly is no commercial/useful piece of code whatsoever... just CS-101 "read data from stdin and do stuff". Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list