Comments on: Solution for Google Treasure Hunt "zipfile" question http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/06/solution-for-google-treasure-hunt-zipfile-question.html Personal Blog for James Christopher Hardie Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: etbnc http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/06/solution-for-google-treasure-hunt-zipfile-question.html#comment-85348 etbnc Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:42:22 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/?p=271#comment-85348 A spreadsheet?! Oy. <a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/man/cmd/dc" rel="nofollow">man dc</a> (Sorry, couldn't resist.) A spreadsheet?! Oy.

man dc

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

]]> By: Ian Bicking http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/06/solution-for-google-treasure-hunt-zipfile-question.html#comment-85347 Ian Bicking Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:40:25 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/?p=271#comment-85347 <code>import glob fns = glob.glob('*bar*.xml') fn_lines = [open(fn).readlines() for fn in fns] xmls = sum(int(lines[3].strip()) for lines in fn_lines if len(lines) >= 3)</code> Then I'd copy and paste for the second one if time was of the essence, as it'd be hard to do it faster via functions. Otherwise obviously the glob pattern and line number would be parameters to a function. I'd do it this way because my command-line-fu is weak, but my programming-fu is strong; the command-line technique is also quite clever. Though doing calculations at the command-line always seemed unnecessarily hard. Honestly globbing might not have occurred to me at first, leading to a much more complicated file traversal. import glob
fns = glob.glob('*bar*.xml')
fn_lines = [open(fn).readlines() for fn in fns]
xmls = sum(int(lines[3].strip()) for lines in fn_lines if len(lines) >= 3)

Then I'd copy and paste for the second one if time was of the essence, as it'd be hard to do it faster via functions. Otherwise obviously the glob pattern and line number would be parameters to a function.

I'd do it this way because my command-line-fu is weak, but my programming-fu is strong; the command-line technique is also quite clever. Though doing calculations at the command-line always seemed unnecessarily hard. Honestly globbing might not have occurred to me at first, leading to a much more complicated file traversal.

]]> By: Thomas Kemp http://www.chrishardie.com/blog/2008/06/solution-for-google-treasure-hunt-zipfile-question.html#comment-85343 Thomas Kemp Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:26:05 +0000 http://www.chrishardie.com/weblog/?p=271#comment-85343 "How would you do it?" Um. I guess I wouldn't. Does that mean you're not going to hire me? "How would you do it?"
Um. I guess I wouldn't. Does that mean you're not going to hire me?

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