On 2016-12-06 01:14, Bernd Nawothnig wrote: > > I am a hobby programmer and I've been trying to learn python > > for a few months now. The program is 'worthlessware' but it > > is a 'learning experience' for me. > > It looks for me like a worthless learning experience.
Eh, one person's "worthless learning experience" is another person's curiosity-satisfying education. I found it an exercise in learning something new about the utmp log format (previously an opaque binary blob) > > A friend wrote a similar program in Bash script and I have been > > working on translating it to Python. > > Stay with shell script for such tasks. It is never a good idea to > choose the programming language before closer evaluating the > problem. Based on the OP's description, this is a small part of a much larger program. And I would personally rather maintain a large Python code-base than a large Bash code-base. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
