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From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:51:17 -0500
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>>>>> Jon Redgrave <jredgrave@capisco.com> writes:

> It seems unreasonably hard to write simple one-line unix command line
> filters in python:

> eg: ls | python -c "<something> print x.upper()"

[...]

> Is there a better solution - if not is this worth a PEP?

Have you looked at PyP (http://code.google.com/p/pyp)?

John