Does Python seem appropriate for me?

[Rick Pasotto]

On 22 Apr 2001 15:56:53 +0300 in comp.lang.python, Erno Kuusela wrote:
> In article <mailman.987895712.26743.python-list at python.org>, "Tim
> Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:
> 
> > Trivial example:  say you use
> 
> >     dir/s *.py
> 
> > today to find all the .py files in the subtree rooted at the current
> > directory.  You're not going to *believe* the hoops you have to jump
> > through to get that done under a Unix shell instead.
> 
> like "ls **/*.py"? (zsh)

Sorry. That doesn't recurse and it doesn't get files in the current
directory.

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welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced
them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less & less
productive... until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from
the role of champions of 'honest toil' to the role of champions of
open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a 'right'."
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		   Rick Pasotto email: rickp at telocity.com