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PAWK - A Python line processor (like AWK)

14 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2013-02-21 · latest 2024-12-19

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  1. There was actually attempts to recreate Awk inside Python. See https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
    comment by Qem · 2024-12-19 · in Half My Life with Perl
  2. …[7] : https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU [8] : https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk/ [9] : https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk [10] : https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Dynamic-E...
    comment by sargstuff · 2024-02-22 · in Ask HN: Writng a transpiler – What language/runtime should I target?
  3. …c) 'awk driven iot' : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14737978 [6] pawk : https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk [7] https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey [8] screen: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-use-linux-screen/ [9] menu : https://w
    comment by sargstuff · 2023-12-10 · in Ask HN: Does anyone teach spreadsheet architecture?
  4. https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk is also great, & auto imports any module that you use
    comment by make3 · 2023-10-23 · in Show HN: Pypipe – A Python command-line tool for pipeline processing
  5. Alec Thomas wrote a script like this called pawk.py ( https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk ). It reads input automatically, and for each line, defines "n" and "f" to the line number and fields list (among other things). It even supports…
    comment by benhoyt · 2023-09-11 · in The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make
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    PAWK – A Python line processor (like Awk)
    story by EntICOnc · 2023-01-26 · 0 comments
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    PAWK: Full power of Python via Awk-like line-processing
    story by sargstuff · 2023-01-15 · 1 comment
  8. There's also this for the Python fans: https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
    comment by prirun · 2022-02-15 · in Frawk: A fast, JITted, statically-typed AWK written in Rust
  9. Name is already taken by python awk substitute: https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
    comment by elmolino89 · 2020-06-03 · in Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records
  10. …- it's like awk, except with python syntax instead of some esoteric syntax that nobody knows. [1] https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
    comment by umvi · 2019-09-29 · in Learn Just a Little Awk (2010)
  11. You may consider adding to awk-like group of programs pawk: https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk It gives you a more readable and concise way to select a colum, split it and sau snip out few characters.
    comment by elmolino89 · 2019-09-01 · in Magritte: A Language for Pipe-Based Programming [pdf]
  12. Good to have these things. See also https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy and https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk
    comment by fiatjaf · 2016-10-30 · in Show HN: JPipe – sed/awk using js expressions
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    PAWK - A Python line processor (like AWK)
    story by rachbelaid · 2013-03-15 · 24 comments
  14. I recently wrote PAWK ( https://github.com/alecthomas/pawk ) in order to give me Python at the command line. It's exactly what you think it is: Python AWK. It's served me well so far.
    comment by alecthomas · 2013-02-21 · in Python command line oneliners