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		gmfawcett on May 9, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Pyp – Easily, magically, run Python at th... This made me nostalgic for a utility I wrote back in 2005 called `pyline`: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik... I'm sure I wasn't the first to scratch that particular itch. It always seemed odd, back then, that Python didn't have better support for the Perl one-liner style of programming.

Drdrdrq on May 10, 2020 [–]

It still seems odd to me. While these projects are nice, if the functionality is not supported in the core system, it is rarely worth the additional trouble (imho). Situation is similar to gitless - git's cli interface sucks, but it is available on every dev machine.

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