Re: Find in ipython3

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On 6/5/2015 12:28 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 04Jun2015 20:23, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 06/04/2015 05:04 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>>> On 04Jun2015 13:09, Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> And several others made similar disparaging remarks. I think you're
>>> all missing
>>> some of the point of Cecil's approach.
>>
>> I take your point.  However I was not intending to make a disparaging
>> remark and certainly didn't expect my post to be taken that way.
>
> And I should apologise for suggesting you were being disparaging to
> Cecil as such. I simply felt that these comments (don't bother
> reinventing the wheel, in various forms) gave a discouraging tone.
>
>> I've
>> been down this road before (doing shell scripting things in Python), and
>> it works pretty well for many things.  Was just sharing my experience is
>> all.
>> I don't mean to discourage exploration for exploration's sake.  By all
>> means have fun. Python certainly is a fun language.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
>
> Gabriel Genellina: See PEP 234 http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0234/
> Angus Rodgers:
>   You've got to love a language whose documentation contains sentences
>   beginning like this:
>     "Among its chief virtues are the following four -- no, five -- no,
>     six -- points: [...]"
> from python-list@python.org
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Re: Find in ipython3 Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-06-05 14:28 +1000
  Re: Find in ipython3 Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-06-04 21:49 -0700
  Re: Find in ipython3 GENERAL THRINAXODON OF DENALI <thrinaxodon@mount.vinson> - 2015-06-05 02:01 -0400

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