Python help

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:47:56AM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Obviously a quite rudimentary script, which at this point does nothing
> more than re-create the /etc/group file in sorted order and removes
> the passwd field.
> 
> I'd like to see/hear others ideas on how to write this same script.
> I'm most interested in improvements or commentary on why what I did
> is either right, wrong, interesting, stupid, etc.
> 
> I'm not overly interesting in shell, perl, tcl, or other language solutions

Then, how about a python script to feed the group file to awk to get
rid of the password field, then pipe the results to sort?  Granted,
this doesn't go a long way to teaching you python, but it does save a
whole lot of typing...  If you don't already know how to do that in
python, it might still be a worthwhile exercise, too.  The resulting
script, I would imagine, would probably be less than 5 lines, and
perhaps as few as 1.  Though, since I don't know a lick of python, I
can't really say.  :)

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