On 10/17/06, David Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
* Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-16 17:32]:>> Why?> Why not just put it in a Python script?> I'm missing something I think.
I don't think you are missing anything. It was something that just sortof happened one day. I was trying to do so
* Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-16 17:32]:
>
> Why?
> Why not just put it in a Python script?
> I'm missing something I think.
I don't think you are missing anything. It was something that just sort
of happened one day. I was trying to do something fairly simple in a
shell script and
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of wesley chun
> Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 12:51 AM
> To: Chris Lasher
> Cc: Python Tutor
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] Equivalent to perl -e
>
> > His lab maintains a s
"David Rock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> This is embedded inside a shell script.
>
> python -c '
> import time
> import datetime
> dtup_now = time.localtime()
> y,m,d = dtup_now[:3]
> d_today = datetime.datetime(y,m,d)
> d_delta = datetime.timedelta(d_today.day)
> last_month = d_today
* Chris Lasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-10-15 22:07]:
> Haha! I'll relay that message! Thanks Kent and Glenn!
>
Here is one I actually use in real life. I needed something to figure
out what the previous year, month, etc for rolling up old log files.
The best thing I could think of for date cal
> His lab maintains a significant amount of Perl code
this sounds like a full-time job on its own. everyone brings up a
good point... use the right tool for the job. if it's one-liners,
that's what perl -e is made for. for everything else that you
mentioned above, Python is the the one, prefera
Points well taken. In fact, the example he demonstrated to me as a
one-liner was a regular expression as a line filter in
Emacs--essentially just a grep. There's no Pythonic equivalent to
this. Right tool for the right job, as you said. He was half-joking
about not learning Python if it lacked the
[Chris Lasher]
> My professor and advisor has been "inspired" by me to give Python a
> try. He's an avid Perl user, and challenged me with the following:
>
> What is the Python equivalent to perl -e ''?
The initally attractive but unsatisfying answer is:
python -c ''
The reason it's "unsatis
Haha! I'll relay that message! Thanks Kent and Glenn!
Chris
On 10/15/06, Glenn T Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Lasher wrote:
>
> >My professor and advisor has been "inspired" by me to give Python a
> >try. He's an avid Perl user, and challenged me with the following:
> >
> >What is th
Chris Lasher wrote:
>My professor and advisor has been "inspired" by me to give Python a
>try. He's an avid Perl user, and challenged me with the following:
>
>What is the Python equivalent to perl -e ''?
>
>Embarassingly, I had no answer, but I figure, someone on the list will
>know. His use of P
Chris Lasher wrote:
> My professor and advisor has been "inspired" by me to give Python a
> try. He's an avid Perl user, and challenged me with the following:
>
> What is the Python equivalent to perl -e ''?
python -c
More details here:
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/python1.html
Kent
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My professor and advisor has been "inspired" by me to give Python a
try. He's an avid Perl user, and challenged me with the following:
What is the Python equivalent to perl -e ''?
Embarassingly, I had no answer, but I figure, someone on the list will
know. His use of Python is at stake; he threat
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