PYTHON 3.4 LEFTOVERS

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sun Nov 17 07:45:05 EST 2013


On 17/11/2013 12:34, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> On Sunday, November 17, 2013 7:30:03 AM UTC-5, YBM wrote:
>> Le 17.11.2013 10:12, Nikos a écrit :
>>> Στις 16/11/2013 6:46 μμ, ο/η YBM έγραψε:
>>>> Le 16.11.2013 17:30, Ferrous Cranus a écrit :
>>>>> Mark wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> If you have to deliberately post like this in an attempt to annoy
>>>>>> people, would you please not do so using double spaced google crap as
>>>>>> it's very annoying, thank you in anticipation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sure thing Mark, here:
>>>>>
>>>>> root at secure [~]# find / -name python3.4 | rm -rf
>>>>>
>>>>> root at secure [~]# locate python3.4
>>>>> /root/.local/lib/python3.4
>>>>> /usr/local/include/python3.4m
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/libpython3.4m.a
>>>>> /usr/local/lib/python3.4
>>>>> /usr/local/share/man/man1/python3.4.1
>>>>>
>>>>> still there!!!
>>>>
>>>> You are utterly stupid:
>>>>
>>>> 1st: rm does not read its standard input so doing
>>>> whatever | rm -fr is useless
>>>>
>>>> 2st: even if it had worked (i.e. removed the files) they
>>>> would still appear with locate, as locate is just reading
>>>> a database build every day by updatedb (using find btw)
>>>>
>>>> What you want to do can be done this way :
>>>>
>>>> find / -name python3.4 -exec rm -rf {} \;
>>>
>>> 'find / -name python34 | xargs -rf' does what i need it do
>>
>> certainly not with xargs -rf, but with xargs rm -rf
>>
>>> it works similar to find's built-in exec method using as argument
>>> whatever matches results to.
>>>
>>> find / -name python3.4 -exec rm -rf {}
>>>
>>> So both have same effect i assume.
>>
>> Yes, but they were no xargs in the command lines you wrote
>> originally, Nikos.
>>
>> bla bla | rm ...
>> is not the same as
>> bla bla | xargs rm ...
>>
>> do you suffer of some kind of visual illness?
>
>
> YBM: I'm going to politely ask you again to please stop.
>
> 1) Don't answer off-topic questions here.  It only encourages more off-topic questions.
>
> 2) Don't be abusive.  http://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
>
> 3) Lastly, your abuse is in the form of a (rhetorical) question, which is likely to simply cause another answer, which we don't want.
>
> Thanks, please do what you can to make this community the kind that you want.
>
> --Ned.
>

So I'll ask again, why is YBM singled out for the code of conduct when I 
can't remember it ever being aimed at Nikos?  This strikes me as dual 
standards, something that I dislike intensely.

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Mark Lawrence




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