perl "-n" option in python?

[William Tanksley]

On 03 May 1999 16:38:53 +0000, Juergen Hoetzel wrote:
>Hi everyone!

Hi, Juergen.

>I switched from perl to python some months ago.

We understand.

>One think i liked in perl was the "-n" option to assume a 'while (<>) {
>... } loop around the script. I used this option to do some quick jobs on
>the command line. For example:

>perl -n -e "/regex/ && print"
>So i was never forced to use awk/sed.

>Why isn't there something equivalent in python?

I could give a LOT of reasons -- for example, Python doesn't have the
notion of a default argument, so such a thing would be counterproductive
-- but I'll just note that Python isn't made for one-liners.

If you need a one-liner, use Perl instead.

Or, in the above example, grep.  :-)

>Juergen

but-then-APL-beats-Perl-at-that-too-ly yr's

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