On 2010-10-14, Roger Davis <r...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > Seebs, you are of course correct that the example I quoted (`cat | > grep | whatever`) is best done internally with the re module and built- > in language features, and in fact that has already been done wherever > possible. I should have picked a better example, there are numerous > cases where I am calling external programs whose functionality is not > duplicated by Python features.
Fair enough. It's just a common pitfall when moving from shell to basically any other language. My first attempts to code in C involved a lot of building up of system() calls. :P -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
