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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:10:15PM -0800, Mark Polesky wrote:
> Marc Hohl wrote:
> > I found something useful here:
> > http://code.google.com/p/pymc/issues/detail?id=230
> >
> > The program is simple but seems to work:
>
> Why not use a sed one-liner?
Because not all OSes have sed. And even those that *do* have sed,
have horrible inconsistent command-line options.
Over the past 10 years, lilypond has been gradually using python
more and more, and phasing out other stuff. I think that's a
great thing, since python is easy to install, it's amazingly
flexible and powerful.
As for this specific case, it's true that sed is faster. Running
strip-whitespace.py on all the docs might take something like 3
seconds, whereas sed would probably finish in less than 0.3
seconds. But that's totally negligible, especially when
considered against making things harder for contributors on
windows.
Cheers,
- Graham
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