Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 20:21:26 -0400, John Salerno > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > >> Yes, I'm using Ubuntu. But I checked this log file and I'm a bit >> confused. It has a lot of listings for 5-31-06, but I didn't even >> install Linux until last Saturday. The next date after 5-31 is 8-5-06, >> and I know I installed things between last Saturday and Aug. 5. >> > Pardon, between when?
Wow, I can't believe how time goes. Aug. 5 *was* the first day! I knew I had installed it a week ago, but I was thinking it was the last Saturday in July, not Aug. 5 already! > > August 5 was "last Saturday" if you ignore "yesterday" (well, since > my watch says it is now Monday... "day before last"). > > I'd guess the "May 31" entries are those that were "snapshots" of > the OS installer date. August 5, first Saturday in the month, might be > the first non-standard installed package. > >> Hmm, interesting. I figured I could do this with a bash script, but I >> don't know bash at all and I'm trying to stick with Python. I don't >> quite understand your bash script (not familiar with the $@ syntax). >> > Well, I don't do shell scripts either, but... looking at the > sample... "$@" is likely the shell equivalent of Python's sys.argv -- or > *sys.argv if passed down -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
