Python's simplicity philosophy

[Ben Finney]

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:02:17 -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> man uniq on GNU:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        Discard  all  but  one  of successive identical lines from
>        INPUT (or standard input), writing to OUTPUT (or  standard
>        output).
> 
> This says nothing about sorting.

Sadly, the 'NAME' section does:

    NAME
           uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

I suspect this is a source of confusion; certainly, it doesn't help.

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