~Python ?

[James T. Dennis]

Jeff Epler <jepler at inetnebr.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Dec 2000 06:03:40 GMT, Gerson Kurz
>  <gerson.kurz at t-online.de> wrote:
>>I understand that ~ is probably handled by the shell, but if Python
>>doesn't deal with it, its hard to use Python in some kinds of scripts.
>>(I think Perl, Pythons ugly twin-brother, does)

> I'd have to say that string-substitution-based languages screw
> me up about ~2/3 of the time.  It must be something about the way my mind
> works.      ^^^^
>             hee hee, get it?


> Seriously, the os.path module includes goodies such as os.path.expanduser
> and os.path.expandvars.

> If you want shorthand for this when you do an 'open', try the following:
> 	import __builtin__, os
> 	def open(file, *args):
> 		file = os.path.expanduser(file)
> 		file = os.path.expandvars(file)
> 		return __builtin__.open(file, *args)

>>>> open("~/.bashrc").readlines()
> ['# .bashrc\012', '\012', '# User specific aliases and functions\012', '\012', '# Source global definitions\012', 'if [ -f /etc/bashrc ]; then\012', '\011. /etc/bashrc\012', 'fi\012']

> Jeff

   What!?!  You think there's something wrong with:

open(os.path.expanduser(os.path.expandvars("$HOME/.bashrc"))).readlines()