Some general questions about using "stdin","stdout"....

[Steve Holden]

asdsd sir wrote:
> thank you very much for your help...
> my big mistake,was to believe that "|" is the pipe symbol for both,unix and 
> python...
> it is really annoying,how such a simple thing can mess things
> 
> Thank you for clearing this out.
> 
It is indeed annoying when assumptions we carry from one environment 
turn out to be untrue for another. I can almost hear the unspoken 
thought ("But Perl is similar to shell scripting in this way, so why 
aren't other languages?") - though I may be doing you a disservice 
assuming that you know anything about Perl.

You will find as your programming experience increases that the 
different languages you learn are appropriate for different purposes, 
and have different advantages and disadvantages. Python excels at 
expressing algorithms in an unambiguous and easily-readable way. It's 
worth taking the time to learn it, and you are clearly already on your way.

I look forward to reading your next question. Welcome to comp.lang.python.

regards
  Steve
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