Micah wrote: > Anyone know if there is any organized effort underway to implement the > Python equivalent of "Perl Power Tools" <http://ppt.perl.org/>? > > If not, would starting this be a waste of effort since: > > - it's already being done in Perl? > - cygwin thrives? > - UNIX is already pervasive :-) ? > > Or would people really like to claim a pure Python set of UNIX > utilities?
There would be some use for a Python library that implements the functionality of these tools. Some of it already exists (difflib, shutil). Some is probably more difficult and less flexible to use from a lib that from straight python (cut). Perhaps that could be started either in the Python Cookbook (http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/) or the Python Wiki (http://wiki.python.org/moin/). Just short explanations of how you would implement the functionality of various Unix utilities in Python. Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list