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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 03:36:33 +1000
Subject: Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano
>>>     s = '\0'.join([thishost, md5sum, dev, ino, nlink, size, file_path])
>>>     print s
>>
>> That won't work on its own; several of the values are integers. So
>> either they need to be str()'d or something in the output system needs
>> to know to convert them to strings. I'm inclined to the latter option,
>> which simply means importing print_function from __future__ and
>> setting sep=chr(0).
>
> Personally, I lean toward converting them with map in this case:
>
>     s = '\0'.join(map(str, [thishost, md5sum, dev, ino, nlink, size,
> file_path]))

There are many ways to do it. I'm not seeing this as particularly less
ugly than the original formatting code, tbh, but it does work.

ChrisA