Python to Shell to Ruby

http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/06/screencast-python-to-shell-to-ruby.html

by kroger • 16 years ago

19 12 16 years ago

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Goes to show you how versatile modern programming languages are. I'm just starting to look at Python for a massive GREP-ing project (searching through millions of server log entries looking for some signs of suspicious activity) and I'm already impressed with the crafstmanship that went into creating it.

jjjjj• 16 years ago

I enjoyed that. One can learn much from watching good developers work - even when solving mundane problems. While I've watched many 'professional'-grade casts (e.g. peepcode) - I find it curious that there aren't more of this type of 'unpolished' casts.

kroger• 16 years ago

I agree. You may also like this screencast:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=977358

ssadler3• 16 years ago

Why hack around this when you can use JSON?

garybernhardt4• 16 years ago

I don't think that Google Reader can export as JSON... ?

akkartik2• 16 years ago

I often use vim for your python step. A sequence of 3 commands to convert opml to a file with feed urls, one on a line.

  :%!grep xmlUrl
  :%s/.*xmlUrl="//
  :%s/".*//

Edit: it relies on idiosyncracies about how google reader formats OPML, though.

ssadler3• 16 years ago

No, but Python can.

Python to Shell to Ruby

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