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Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

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Date 2014-09-20 14:47 +1000
Subject Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.14159.1411188477.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> It's a bad idea to rely on features added to site.py, since they aren't
> necessarily going to be available at all sites or in all implementations:
>
> steve@orac:/home/steve$ ipy
> IronPython 2.6 Beta 2 DEBUG (2.6.0.20) on .NET 2.0.50727.1433
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> exit(2)
> steve@orac:/home/steve$
>
> Bugger me, I'm going home!

This is the real reason for not relying on site.py:

rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python -S
Python 2.7.3 (default, Mar 13 2014, 11:03:55)
[GCC 4.7.2] on linux2
>>> exit
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'exit' is not defined

ChrisA

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program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files David Alban <extasia@extasia.org> - 2014-09-18 11:11 -0700
  Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 15:45 +1000
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 16:45 +1000
      Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-19 21:04 +1000
        Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 21:36 +1000
          Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-20 09:33 +1000
            Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-20 14:47 +1000
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 11:20 -0600
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-20 03:36 +1000

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