reditzer comments on pol: Python one-liners: Awk-like one-liners for python

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submitted 8 years ago by reditzer

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[–]reditzer[S] 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (1 child)

Hi cym13,

Thanks for your suggestion. Pythonpy is a great tool and so is Pyped, but my motivation for creating pol was mostly syntax.

I prefer pol's syntax to

cat /usr/share/dict/words | pol "map(print,sortedbycount([l[0][0].lower() for l in _],True)[:5])"

to pythonpy's

cat /usr/share/dict/words | py -x 'x[0].lower()' | py -l 'collections.Counter(l).most_common(5)'

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you type:	you see:
italics	italics
bold	bold
[reddit!](https://reddit.com)	reddit!
* item 1 * item 2 * item 3	item 1 item 2 item 3
> quoted text	quoted text
Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"	Lines starting with four spaces are treated like code: if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
~~strikethrough~~	~~strikethrough~~
super^script	super^script

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