Pontifications

QUOTE –> Fascinating little CLI utility which uses some deeply clever AST introspection to enable little Python one-liners that act as replacements for all manner of pipe-oriented unix utilities. Took me a while to understand how it works from the README, but then I looked at the code and the entire thing is only 380 lines long. There’s also a useful –explain option which outputs the Python source code that it would execute for a given command. END QUOTE <— Read Simon Willison’s blog post and check out hauntsaninja’s pyp which is “Magical, but never mysterious.” <— Right as if introspection and the AST is never both magical and mysterious :-)