On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 07:53:55 +0200, Thomas Rachel wrote: > When learning Python, it often happend me to re-inven the wheel. But as > soon as I saw the presence of something I re-wrote, I skipped my > re-written version and used the built-in.
And me. Not just Python either. The very first piece of code I wrote on a Linux machine was a shell script that (very badly, and even more very slowly) counted the number of files in a directory. 20 lines (if I remember correctly) to duplicate a simple: ls | wc -l It was a humbling lesson to always check what features a programming environment or language offers before reinventing the wheel with four sides. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
