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Re: BOOM!

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: BOOM!
Date	2017-04-19 17:50 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
Message-ID	<azjb00ag.au8@rooftop.invalid> (permalink)
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
> On 4/17/2017 8:21 PM, Steve Carroll wrote:
> 
> 
>> I just can't get used to that syntax... 
> 
> eh?  It doesn't get any simpler:
> 
> 
> * print "a piece of text"
> 

printf "a piece of text\n"
echo "a piece of text"

> * for i in range(start,stop,step):
>       do something
> 

for i in $(seq start step stop); do something; done

> * list.append(value)
> 

words+=(five six)

> * db.execute("SELECT COLUMN1, COLUMN2 FROM TABLE;")
>   for col1, col2 in db.fetchall():
>       print col1, col2
>       do things with the data
> 

psql -t -c "select ..."

> 
> And list comprehension is a small miracle; just 1 line to count letters:
> 
> msg = "Now is the time for all 123 good men to come to the aid of their 
> country."
> for letter, cnt in sorted(set([(x,msg.count(x)) for x in msg if 
> x.isalpha()])):
>        print letter, cnt
> 

grep -o . |grep '[a-zA-Z]'|sort|uniq -c

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Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-17 19:28 -0400
  Re: BOOM! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 17:21 -0700
    Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 09:41 -0400
      Re: BOOM! fr314159@gmail.com - 2017-04-19 07:48 -0700
        Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 14:21 -0400
          Re: BOOM! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-19 11:36 -0700
          Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-19 20:03 +0000
            Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 16:24 -0400
      Re: BOOM! Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2017-04-19 08:37 -0700
      Re: BOOM! owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2017-04-19 17:50 +0000
        Re: BOOM! DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-04-19 14:32 -0400

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