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Author vstinner
Recipients SilentGhost, christian.heimes, gregory.p.smith, martin.panter, palaviv, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2016-08-18.19:10:29
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> There are so many existing tools that already do this I don't really see
why Python needs to become yet another one.  What is the value in doing
this?

Portability. You described UNIX. There is no such tool by default on
Windows for example (as Avid said).
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