Is there Python equivalent to Perl BEGIN{} block?

[Alex]

Hi all,

The subject says pretty much all, i would very appreciate an answer. I
tried to search the various forums and groups, but didn't find any
specific answer...

Thanks,
Alex.

[Paddy]

On Mar 13, 7:03 pm, Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonat hangardner.net>
wrote:

On Mar 12, 6:37 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... @gmail.comwrote :

<<Snip>>

>
And leave out the magical -p and -n. If you want to iterate through a
file, "for line in sys.stdin:".

Or better still:

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input ():
process(line)

- Paddy.

[Jeff Schwab]

Paddy wrote:

On Mar 13, 7:03 pm, Jonathan Gardner <jgard...@jonat hangardner.net>
wrote:

>On Mar 12, 6:37 pm, Carl Banks <pavlovevide... @gmail.comwrote :

<<Snip>>

>And leave out the magical -p and -n. If you want to iterate through a
file, "for line in sys.stdin:".

Or better still:

import fileinput
for line in fileinput.input ():
process(line)

I write maybe a dozen one-liners a day. It's not practical to do this
with Python, or at least it's not nearly as convenient as Perl. I'm
fine with the magic. Abusing the magic is another story; Perl language
features are meant to be used in particular contexts, and BEGIN blocks
are rarely if ever necessary in Perl modules.

[Aahz]

In article <hM************ *************** ***@comcast.com >,
Jeff Schwab <je**@schwabcen ter.comwrote:

>
I write maybe a dozen one-liners a day. It's not practical to do this
with Python, or at least it's not nearly as convenient as Perl.

That is a defensible position, but my take is that writing the one-liners
in Python is more convenient than remembering enough Perl to make writing
one-liners useful. Especially when the one-liners often start expanding.
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