#!/usr/bin/env python3 import sys import operator from functools import reduce as fold import argparse mul = lambda xs: fold(operator.mul, xs) operators = { "sum": sum, "+": sum, "mul": mul, "*": mul, "max": max, "min": min } default_operator = "+" parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Do maths on stdin") parser.add_argument( "operator", metavar="op", nargs='?', choices=list(operators.keys()), default=default_operator, help="Action to take (one of: {}; default: {})".format( ", ".join(operators.keys()), default_operator ) ) parser.add_argument( "--int", dest="datatype", action="store_const", const=(int, "integer"), default=(float, "decimal number"), help="use integers (default: float)" ) args = parser.parse_args() op = operators[args.operator] parse_func, datatype_name = args.datatype data = [] for i, line in enumerate(sys.stdin, start=1): if line == "\n": continue try: data.append(parse_func(line)) except ValueError: print("Line {} could not be interpreted as a {}: {:r}".format(i, datatype_name, line.rstrip("\n"))) sys.exit(3) print(op(data))