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Re: Find in ipython3

Date 2015-06-04 13:09 -0600
From Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Subject Re: Find in ipython3
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Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On 06/02/2015 10:13 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I am thinking about using ipython3 instead of bash. When I want to
> find a file I can do the following:
>     !find ~ -iname '*python*.pdf'
> but is there a python way?

No more than there is a bash-native way of doing find.  Bash scripts use
a myriad of external, utility programs like find, cut, awk, sed, etc to
do heavy lifting.  The same things work just fine in iPython.  Why do
you need a "python way?"  Besides, Python isn't really a shell scripting
language, and ipython seems more like a hack to me.  Bash, Zsh, etc are
all better suited to actual shell scripting because their syntaxs
integrate the spawning external processes and building pipes in a nice
way (if you can call bash syntax nice).  That's not to say Python can't
be used for system programming. It certainly can.  And it can replace
perl easily at fast text processing.  Generator expressions are the
single most powerful tool in this.

Why not use Python for what it's good for and say pipe the results of
find into your python script?  Reinventing find poorly isn't going to
buy you anything.

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Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-02 18:13 +0200
  Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-04 12:54 +1000
    Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-04 07:09 +0200
      Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-04 15:43 +1000
      Re: Find in ipython3 Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-06-04 14:27 +0000
        Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-04 17:12 +0200
          Re: Find in ipython3 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 13:11 -0600
  Re: Find in ipython3 Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 13:09 -0600
  Re: Find in ipython3 Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-06-04 14:17 -0500
  Re: Find in ipython3 random832@fastmail.us - 2015-06-04 16:13 -0400
    Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-05 09:17 +0200
      Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-06 11:57 +0200
        Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-06 13:07 +0200
          Re: Find in ipython3 Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-06-07 08:20 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-07 17:38 +1000
            Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 11:33 +0200
              Re: Find in ipython3 Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-06-07 23:16 +1000
            Re: Find in ipython3 Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-06-07 12:27 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-07 15:01 +0200
            Re: Find in ipython3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-07 22:13 +1000

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