Long Live Python!

[Bruce Sass]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Skip Montanaro wrote:
<...>
> Well, no, but I might run this file as "python mycode.py" (ten-minute hack -
> buyer beware) and type either Python or shell commands at the interpreter
> prompt:
<...>
> The output looks like
>
>     % python mycode.py
>     Python 2.1.1c1 (#13, Jul 10 2001, 17:30:38)
>     [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Linux-Mandrake 8.0 2.96-0.48mdk)] on linux2
>     Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>     (Console)
>     >>> wc -l /etc/termcap
>       16412 /etc/termcap
>     >>> f = open("/etc/termcap")
>     >>> f.readlines()[10]
>     '# Please e-mail changes to terminfo at thyrsus.com; the old termcap at berkeley.edu\n'
>     >>>
>
> ;-)

The Python interpreter should do this right out-of-the-box,
or maybe Python embedded in Bash would work. ;-)


- Bruce