Searching for the best scripting language,

[Carl Banks]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2004-06-14, Carl Banks <imbosol at aerojockey.invalid> wrote:
>> Ryan Paul wrote:
>>> ["*.rar.*", "*.r[0-9][0-9].*"].each {|fn|
>>>  Dir[$prefix+fn].collect {|x|
>>>  x.gsub(/\.\d+[\d.-]*$/,"")}.uniq.each {|x|
>>>  `cat #{sesc x}.* > #{sesc x}`} }
> 
>> Oh boy.  I believe this untested Python code does what you want, also
>> one line, also wrapped in the name of "clarity."
> 
>>     for f in dict([(__import__('re').sub(r"\.\d+[\d.-]*$","",x),None)
>>                    for fn in ("*.rar.*","*.r[0-9][0-9].*")
>>                    for x in __import__('glob').glob(prefix+fn)]):
>>         __import__('os').system("cat %s.* > %s" % (sesc(f),sesc(f)))
> 
>> This would take about 7 lines in well-written Python, not 15.
> 
>> bad-code-can-be-written-in-any-language-ly yr's,
> 
>    Ok, see, here's the thing.  I look at the Ruby code and can kind
> of follow it.  I look at the Python code and can kind of follow it.
> but in neither case have I, in glancing here and there today, been
> able to decipher exactly what is going on.  Care to show the 5 line
> long form to see if I get that?  No explination, just curious to see
> if I can get it reading real code instead of hacked up line noise.

Of course you can.

    import glob
    import os
    import re

    f = {}
    for pattern in ("*.rar.*","*.r[0-9][0-9].*"):
        for listing in glob.glob(prefix+pattern):
            f[listing] = None
    for filename in f:
        os.system("cat %s.* > %s" % (sesc(filename),sesc(filename)))


I don't know what sesc is.  I assume he had defined it elsewhere,
because he said this was only part of a script he wrote (and that's
what scares me--I can understand a throwaway one-liner looking like
this, but not a line in a script).


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