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On 2026-06-13, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Jon Ribbens writes:
>> with open('/proc/meminfo') as meminfo:
>> info = {
>> entry[0][:-1]: int(entry[1])
>> for line in meminfo
>> if (entry := line.split())
>> }
>
> with open('/proc/meminfo') as meminfo:
> info
On 2026-06-13, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Jon Ribbens writes:
>
>> Oh, and doesn't have ints as the dictionary values, which is rather
>> more fatal to the use-case.
>
>> print("Used memory: %d Kb" % (info["MemTotal"] - info["MemFree"] -
>> info["Buffers"] - info["Cached"] + info["SwapTotal"] - info["S
On 2026-06-13, Jon Ribbens wrote:
> On 2026-06-13, Paul Rubin wrote:
>> Jon Ribbens writes:
>>> with open('/proc/meminfo') as meminfo:
>>> info = {
>>> entry[0][:-1]: int(entry[1])
>>> for line in meminfo
>>> if (entry := line.split())
>>> }
>>
>> with
On 2026-06-13, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Jon Ribbens writes:
>> Lawrence's version used your neat dict(line.split()[:2] ...) trick.
>
> Maybe this:
>
>dict((a,int(b)) for a,b in (x.split()[:2] for x in xs))
>
> I feel like there should be a way to do this with the := operator
> instead of the neste
