On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com wrote:
If you want the real nightmare -- look into the IBM queue scheme
(not many REXX implementations except on IBM mainframes support that).
One can push lines onto the queue, such that when the script exits, the
On Tuesday, February 5, 2013 5:55:50 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
To do anything meaningful in bash, you need to be an expert on
passing work off to other programs...
[snip]
If you took the Zen of Python,
and pretty much reversed everything, you might have the Zen of Bash:
I have to
Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:28:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
You misunderstand. It's actually a very simple rule. Python follows C's
principle of accepting that any return value
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Line 3 has unquoted echo which is not a REXX command; it is
considered an external command and is passed the /result/ of calling
REXX time() -- where Windows executes it
Good lord, that's even worse than I feared. So it's not just unparsable
non-REXX code that is
Dennis Lee Bieber wlfr...@ix.netcom.com writes:
PowerShell is meant to be used for administrative level scripting,
replacing such things as WSH.
Yeah and WSH has been included since Windows 98... So Windows has been
at least OK with shell scripting VBScript and JScript for the last 15
On 2013-02-05, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
On 2013-02-06, Ian Kelly ian.g.ke...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that
On 2013-02-06, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for
On 2013-02-06, Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Python is not an excellent option. It's a bad fit for shell
scripting, it just happens to be way better than a weak shell. Having
grown up on command.com, I found OS/2's cmd.exe to be a massive
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:16:04 +1100, Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
It feels silly enough translating this OS/2 batch script:
@logon SOME_USER /pSOME_PASS /vl
@e:\rexx\load
@db2 start database manager
@exit
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Though that is the nice feature of REXX*... Anything that wasn't
parsable as a REXX statement was automatically sent to the current
command processor.
Nice? Are you being
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:28:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
Though that is the nice feature of REXX*... Anything that wasn't
parsable as a REXX statement was automatically sent
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:28:17 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote:
You misunderstand. It's actually a very simple rule. Python follows C's
principle of accepting that any return value from an expression should
On 2/4/2013 11:14 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I use
Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things. Very simple
copy files script. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = (C:\\temp2)
Am 05.02.2013 05:14, schrieb Anthony Correia:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I use
Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things. Very simple
copy files script. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = (C:\\temp2)
Drop
- Original Message -
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I
use Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of
things. Very simple copy files script. Is this the best way to do
it?
import os
objdir = (C:\\temp2)
colDir =
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
separate variable but iterated over it directly. For large dirs, it
could also be better to use os.path.walk(), because that doesn't first
build a list and then iterate over the list but iterates over the single
elements directly. This avoids the memory allocation
- Original Message -
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I
use Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of
things. Very simple copy files script. Is this the best way to do
it?
Have you seen/checked http://pash.sourceforge.net/ ?
Am 05.02.2013 11:35, schrieb Peter Otten:
Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
[...] use os.path.walk(), because that doesn't first build a list and
then iterate over the list but iterates over the single elements directly.
[...]
Not true. os.walk() uses os.listdir() internally.
Oh. 8|
Thanks for
On 2013-02-05, Anthony Correia akcorr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform.
Well, you haven't really described what it is you're trying to do, but
it looks to me like bash and the usual set of shell utilities (e.g.
find) is what you need rather
On 2013-02-05, Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote:
On 2/4/2013 11:14 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I use
Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things. Very
simple copy files script. Is this the best way to
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:22:02 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Anthony Correia akcorr...@gmail.com wrote:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform.
Well, you haven't really described what it is you're trying to do, but
it looks to me like bash and the
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script
will do the job.
Python is an excellent option
On 02/05/2013 01:39 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script
will
On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell
On 2013-02-05, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
On 02/05/2013 01:39 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use
Python (unless
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Ethan Furman et...@stoneleaf.us wrote:
On 02/05/2013 01:39 PM, Neil Cerutti wrote:
Python is an excellent option for writing shell scripts,
particularly if your shell is cmd.exe.
I believe having
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grant Edwards invalid@invalid.invalid wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti ne...@norwich.edu wrote:
On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry walterhu...@lavabit.com wrote:
Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means.
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but
Chris Angelico wrote:
Python is not an excellent option. It's a bad fit for shell
scripting, it just happens to be way better than a weak shell. Having
grown up on command.com, I found OS/2's cmd.exe to be a massive
improvement, and Windows's cmd.exe to be rather less impressive... but
both
On Feb 5, 2013 6:00 PM, Steven Dapos;Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Python is not an excellent option. It's a bad fit for shell
scripting, it just happens to be way better than a weak shell. Having
grown up on command.com, I found OS/2's cmd.exe
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:01:56 +, Walter Hurry wrote:
Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use Python
(unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script will do the job.
A shell script is only the better option if (almost) the *only* thing the
script needs to do
On 02/05/2013 08:32 PM, Nobody wrote:
A shell script is only the better option if (almost) the *only* thing the
script needs to do is to execute commands.
The moment you start trying to process data, it's time to put up with
the verbosity of subprocess.Popen() so that you can use a
On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
Chris Angelico wrote:
Python is not an excellent option. It's a bad fit for shell
scripting, it just happens to be way better than a weak shell. Having
grown up on command.com, I found OS/2's cmd.exe
On Feb 6, 6:55 am, Steven D'Aprano steve
+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
I would not hesitate to use Python, or some other high-level language like
Ruby, over bash for anything non-trivial that I cared about. It might not
be as terse and compact as a well-written bash script, but that's
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I use
Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things. Very simple
copy files script. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = (C:\\temp2)
colDir = os.listdir(objdir)
for f in colDir:
On 02/04/2013 09:14 PM, Anthony Correia wrote:
I need to pick up a language that would cover the Linux platform. I
use Powershell for a scripting language on the Windows side of things.
Very simple copy files script. Is this the best way to do it?
import os
objdir = (C:\\temp2)
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