[wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session

Pedro Worcel pedro at worcel.com
Thu Feb 13 10:48:33 NZDT 2014


THAT IS HUGE! http://apt.alioth.debian.org/python-apt-doc/library/

never knew


2014-02-13 9:30 GMT+12:00 Douglas Bagnall <douglas at halo.gen.nz>:

> And if you don't like pipes:
>
> python -c'import random,apt;print random.choice(apt.cache.Cache().keys())'
>
> It even ends up shorter than the original perl:
>
> > dpkg --get-selections | perl -E '@p = map { s/\s.*//r } <>; say
> $p[rand(+ at p)]'
>
> Douglas
>
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