[Edu-sig] How do we tell truths that might hurt

[Christian Mascher]

Thanks Arthur,

this was a way of telling _a_ truth, without hurting anyone.
I think I never really laughed out loud before when reading Edu-Sig 
(serious postings most of the time). I really enjoyed this!

Christian

Arthur Siegel wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 05:28:48 -0500
> From: Arthur <ajsiegel at optonline.net>
> Subject: RE: [Edu-sig] How do we tell truths that might hurt
> To: hancock at anansispaceworks.com, edu-sig at python.org
> Message-ID: <0HWM00MEKD3WA9 at mta9.srv.hcvlny.cv.net>
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> 
> Terry - 
> 
>>import re, string
>>
>>illegal_re = re.compile(r'[^a-zA-Z\s]+')
> 
> 
> Huh?
> 
> 
>>words = [w for w in illegal_re.sub(' ', open('myfile',
>>'r').read()).lower().split() if len(w)>2]
> 
> 
> Whoa?
>

> 
>>Now that wasn't terribly difficult, was it? ;-)
> 
> 
> Piece of cake!
> 
> Art