Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: GENERAL THRINAXODON OF DENALI Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Find in ipython3 Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 02:01:13 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <5571081D.2070507@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cEaA0izntvR1DNUJuv1ViA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:92124 On 6/5/2015 12:28 AM, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 04Jun2015 20:23, Michael Torrie wrote: >> On 06/04/2015 05:04 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: >>> On 04Jun2015 13:09, Michael Torrie 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 > > 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 HUMANS HAVE ORIGINS IN THE DEVONIAN. -- THRINAXODON, THE DEFENDER OF USENET.