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[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:41:58 -0400, rumours say that Peter Hansen
<peter at engcorp.com> might have written:

[snip]

>If you don't care about the order of the final
>result, just open a file and with one line the reduced data
>is written out:
>
>     newfile.write(''.join(d.values()))

or

    newfile.writelines(d.values()) # 1.5.2 and later

or

    newfile.writelines(d.itervalues()) # 2.2 and later
-- 
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best,
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