In article <[email protected]>, TerryP <[email protected]> wrote: > >Very sophisticated scripts are possible using bash and ksh, there is >even a form of ksh that has tk capabilities! (tksh). The Python and >Bourne-derived languages are however fundamentally different >creatures, and use very different data models. You should **not** >write Python (or Perl) scripts as if they were shell scripts -- doing >so is very bad practice. When you want a shell script, write a shell >script. When you write a Python script, write a Python script. It >really is that simple.
Oh, well, I guess I follow bad practice a lot. Shame on me. (That is, I disagree that it's bad practice to use Python as if it were a straight scripting language, os.system() and all. I prefer using Python because it makes it easy to upgrade scripts as needed.) -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it." [email protected] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
