Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:04, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:51:23 -0500
> Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote:
[snip]
> Of course now step 1 has been replaced with "rewrite in Python". I still
> have Perl coursing through my veins though. The other day I caught myself
> trying to upper(s) a string instead of string.upper(). The deciding day that
There's an even quicker way, that's even OO:
>>> import string
>>> s = 'foo'
>>> s.upper()
'FOO'
> Python. All I gotta say is that os.path.walk() is a godsend. :)
As are, IMO,
.isabs()
.isfile()
.isdir()
.islink()
.ismount()
.realpath()
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