4zumanga wrote: > I have a bunch of really horrible hacked-up bash scripts which I would > really like to convert to python, so I can extend and neaten them. > However, I'm having some trouble mapping some constructs easily, and > was wondering if anyone know of a guide to mapping simple uses of > command line programs to python. > > For an example, the kind of thing I am thinking of are things like > (yes, this is horrible code). > > # These are a run of a program I have written > ./proggy -test1 > out1 > ./proggy -test2 > out2 > > #Do some simple manipulation of the output. > grep Node out1 > new_out1 > grep Node out2 > new_out2 > diff out1 out2 >
Chapter 2 of Mark Lutz's "Programming Python" (2nd Edition) will make you adept at using Python as a (***VASTLY SUPERIOR***) alternative to shell scripting. Chapters 3-5 will get you pretty close to master level at shell/system scripting. Note: This is not an intro to python. You should already be able to do simple programming in python for Lutz's book to be useful. James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
