On 2016-12-05, Wildman wrote: > And I am trying to write it without using external programs, where > possible.
That is not the Unix way. > I am a hobby programmer and I've been trying to learn python > for a few months now. The program is 'worthlessware' but it > is a 'learning experience' for me. It looks for me like a worthless learning experience. > A friend wrote a similar program in Bash script and I have been > working on translating it to Python. Stay with shell script for such tasks. It is never a good idea to choose the programming language before closer evaluating the problem. Bernd -- No time toulouse -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list