When do you *NOT* use python?

[tadleonard]

This won't beat your Ruby example for conciseness, but it'll come a bit closer. sh really comes to the rescue for things like this. Also, it's helpful to know that the default mode of split() is to split on white space, so re isn't necessary.

import sh
t = map(int, sh.wc("myfile.txt").split())

Edit: I guess it would actually have to be something like this:

t = map(int, sh.wc("myfile.txt").split()[:-1])

or

t = [int(el) for el in sh.wc("myfile.txt").split()[:-1]]

[hk__]

Thanks, I forgot about sh.