From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-03-31T03:24:25+09:00
Subject: Re: deciding between ruby and python

In article <cdki60tqbdcr8bjfglaq3a9ijdv7ves4kk@4ax.com>,
gabriele renzi  <surrender_it@remove.yahoo.it> wrote:
>il Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:01:59 +0900, Lothar Scholz
><mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> ha scritto::
>
>
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>>PT> TCL the most advanced scripting language
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><snip>
>And tcl has a lovely vfs implementation in the core :)
>(hint! hint!)

does vfs == "virtual file system" ?  Meaning that you can access a URL 
just the same way you would access a file on your system?

If that's what you mean, here's an excerpt from Why's "What's shiny and 
new in 1.8":

 open-uri

I have been dying for this library to come up in the standard library. 
Most of you don't know it, but you can quit using Net::HTTP and Net::FTP. 
The open-uri library is a Ruby equivalent to wget or curl (the library 
mentioned in the previous section).

Basically, this module allows you to use the basic open method with URLs.

require 'open-uri'
require 'yaml'

open( "http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml" ) do |f|
  feed = YAML::load( f )
end


Phil