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The elegance of Python

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-01-19 06:35:27 - Graham Ellis

If I need a little utility and I'm running a Perl course, then I'll write it in Perl. Training in Tcl ... then that's the scripting language to use for other requirements that day (two languages in a day is too much). And of course if I'm running Python Programming it has to be .....

MY GOODNESS - what an elegant language Python is!



import os

have = os.listdir(".")

for fname in have:

    print "-" * 30,fname

    fh = open(fname,"r")

    for cline in fh.xreadlines():

        print cline,


That little script took all the examples I'd written into a directory and packaged them into a single file - bit of redirection and emailing, and all the trainees had a copy.