[Peter Hansen] | [Steve Holden] | > Peter Hansen wrote: | >> But the whole argument is fairly moot... I've needed a rectangle | >> operation only once in the last ten years, and if I hadn't known at | >> the time that my editor could do it (and spent about half an hour | >> figuring out how it worked), I could have written a utility to | >> do the job faster if I'd been using Python at the time... | > | > Or even used cut(1) from the command line. | | Or myybe not :-) | | Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600] | (C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp. | | c:\>cut | 'cut' is not recognized as an internal or external command, | operable program or batch file.
Thanks goodness for UnxUtils, is what I say: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ (But you probably knew that!) Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195] (C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp. o:\scripts\work_in_progress\tim>c:\tools\cut --help Usage: c:\tools\cut [OPTION]... [FILE]... Print selected parts of lines from each FILE to standard output. TJG ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list