Hi Steve,
On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or should I learn bash scripting anyway?
>
> Learn enough to be able to parse it and convert it to your language of
> choice.
That's a valuable advice. It'll save me a lot of time and yet I'll be able
to achieve what I want.
import os
> for file in os.listdir('.'):
> root, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
> if ext.lower() == 'wav':
> mp3 = root + '.mp3'
> result = os.system("lame -h -b 160 '%s' '%s'" % (file, mp3))
> if result:
> print '%s not converted' % file
Longer, yes. Easier to follow? Most certainly. Superior, no
> doubt. The
> shell example would miss WAV, Wav, wAv, etc. Secondly the only place we
> need
> to escape the variable is when we need shell to do some work, namely the
> call
> to lame. Finally we don't end up with '.wav.mp3' files all over the
> place.
> We can check the results easily and handle failures gracefully. Can all
> of
> that be done in shell? Certainly. Is it worth doing in shell? Not
> hardly.
On my Amiga I'm used to ARexx. It has some same advantages over AmigaDOS
like you describe above about bash vs. python. Fortunately there's
regina-rexx for
Linux. It has the same syntax and I've already written some scripts
combining
regina-rexx and grep. But I think the scope of regina-rexx is somewhat
limited
compared to python. But for the moment I can use it and gradually learn
bash,
python, perl or whatever suits me.
Greetings, Manon.
