blossoms

    TypeError: list indices must be integers, not list

    alist = [foo(word) for word in words if word.startswith('a')]
    alist = map(foo, filter(lambda word: word.startswith('a'), words))

    $ dd bs=1m count=10 if=/dev/random of=randomdata
    10+0 records in
    10+0 records out
    10485760 bytes transferred in 0.878533 secs (11935535 bytes/sec)
    $ python stdin_to_stdout.py < randomdata | cmp - randomdata
    $ echo $?
    0

    $ printf 'binarydata'|awk '{ print }'|hexdump -C
    00000000  62 69 6e 61 72 79 64 61  74 61 0a                 |binarydata.|
    0000000b