Am Dienstag, den 08.01.2008, 16:23 +0100 schrieb Nils Philippsen:
> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:27 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> > Enrico Scholz wrote:
> > >>>>> But python or other bloaty scripting languages are not a solution
> > >>>>> and completely unacceptable at this place.
> > >>>> "Bloaty" is something that could be solved, don't you think?
> > >>> Not with python or perl.
> > >> I've shown you the numbers. Why you still insist on it being bloated
> > >
> > > Resulting scripts will be much longer. E.g. how much lines of python
> > > code are required for
> > >
> > > | sed '/^foo/s!/bin!/opt!' file | tac
> >
> > Looks like one line in python to me if you write a sed and tac replacement into
> > your python library. (e.g. thats not about bash vs python at all...)
>
> If I'm not to try to emulate the single commands, but look at the whole
> job which I understand as "read file, replace first occurrence of '/bin'
> with '/opt' in lines beginning with 'foo', then put out the lines in
> reversed order" it could be along this (and wouldn't use any external
> module or program):
>
> print '\n'.join (reversed (map (lambda line: line[:3] == "foo" and line.replace ('/bin', '/opt', 1) or line, ''.join (open ('file').readlines ()).split ('\n'))))
>
> To make this more readable, I'd split this up and comment it:
>
> --- 8< ---
> # read the file and split it at '\n'
> lines = ''.join (open ('file').readlines ()).split ('\n')
Yikes! Python just became Perl :)
>
> for i in range (len (lines)):
> if line[:3] == 'foo':
> # replace first occurrence of /bin with /opt
> lines[i] = lines[i].replace ('/bin', '/opt', 1)
>
> print '\n'.join (reversed (lines))
> --- >8 ---
>
> Now the original sed can surely be changed that it would take more than
> one line to emulate the line's function, but then I would feel
> comfortable using (shipped) modules like "re" to achieve the same effect
> as the shell code uses sed and tac.
>
> Nils
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