[OT] Re: output from external commands

[darren kirby]

quoth the Fredrik Lundh:

(using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)

Silly? Sure. os.listdir() is more on point. Never said I was the smartest.
However, I will defend my post by pointing out that at the time it was the
only one that actually included code that did what the OP wanted.

Recall I wrote:
"If all you want is filenames this will work:"
not:
"This is how you should do it"

And I invite you to prove me wrong ... it does work.

As a novice, I do appreciate getting set strait when I code something dumb,
but going off about the efficiency of "%s % foo" over "str(foo)" hardly helps
the OP, and is not very pertinant to my glob faux pas either. An explanation
of why glob is silly would perhaps teach me better than just stating it as
fact.

It is things like this that make me wary of posting to this list, either to
help another, or with my own q's. All I usually want is help with a specific
problem, not a critique involving how brain-dead my code is. I'm a beginner,
of course my code is going to be brain-dead

I thought the idea was "make it work first, then optimize"? In any event, I
will refrain from trying to help people here until I get over this silly
stage I seem to be stuck in... it just doesn't seem worth it.

I am not trying to sound like a whiner here, I just wish you experts would go
easy on us novices...

-d
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darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org
"...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected..."
- Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972

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[Steven Bethard]

quoth the Fredrik Lundh:

(using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)

[snip]

It is things like this that make me wary of posting to this list, either to
help another, or with my own q's. All I usually want is help with a specific
problem, not a critique involving how brain-dead my code is. I'm a beginner,
of course my code is going to be brain-dead

I wouldn't fret too much about a sharp remark from Fredrik Lundh.
They're pretty much all that way. It looks like you already did the
right thing - read past the insults, and gleaned the useful information
that he included in between. It takes a little training to get used to
him, but if you can look past the nasty bite, he's really a valuable
resource around here.

STeVe

 

[Tony Meyer]

I wouldn't fret too much about a sharp remark from Fredrik Lundh.
They're pretty much all that way. [...] It takes a little
training to get used to
him, but if you can look past the nasty bite, he's really a valuable
resource around here.

+1 QOTW

=Tony.Meyer