Python

[Bill Wood]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:38:54 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 09:44:37AM +0100, David Gaskill wrote:
>> It really seems to me to be rather ironic that there is no way for me to
>> extract a list of addresses and remove the duplicates, other than by using
>> paper and pencil, unless I learn a programming language...
>
>    I don't.  That is a very specific task and not something commonly done.
>Blame Microsoft for the lack of decent scripting tools in DOS (batch doesn't
>cut it) and the industry's overriding push to make the end user as ignorant as
>possible.  I can think of no less than three different ways to do it.  Perl,
>Python and simple shell commands.  
>
>
etc

Maybe it's more common than you think. I am moving soon to a
new ISP and new state of the union, and will need to inform a
lot of folks. Maybe I'll learn Python.

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