perl to python

[Carl Banks]

Kirk Job-Sluder wrote:
> Write me a two-line script in python that reads a character delimited
> file, and printf pretty-prints all of the records in a different order. 

How about one line (broken into three for clarity):

for line in __import__('sys').stdin:
    print ''.join([ x.rjust(10) for x in map(
        line.strip().split(',').__getitem__,[4,3,2,1,0]) ])

Believe it or not, I actually do stuff like this on the command line
once in awhile; to me, it's less effort to type this in than to
remember (read: look up) the details of awk syntax.  I don't think I'm
typical in this regard, though.


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