[conspire] RElief: Re: CAPS - eyes hurt

[Alex Kleider]

On 2018-12-18 23:06, Michael Paoli wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 15:59:20 -0800
>> From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>> To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>> Subject: Re: [conspire] successful install, at last
>> 
>> Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):
>> 
>>>  REPLIES BELOW, ALL IN CAPS
>> 
>> Wow, my eyes hurt.
> 
> Ouch ...
> Fortunately we have effective treatments for that, e.g. RElief can
> be provided by REs - Regular Expressions ...
> Which, e.g., can all be done in lovely vi(1),

I very much admire Michael's facility with Unix tools.
Another approach that might be easier to implement:

======== my little script =======
# File: nouppers.py

"""
Usage:
    python nouppers.py infile [> outfile]

Prints infile with all uppercase letters changed to lowercase.
Output can be redirected to a separate file.
"""

import sys

infile = sys.argv[1]
with open(infile, 'r') as file_object:
     text = file_object.read()
nouppers = text.lower()
# print nouppers # Use this line if running python2.7
print(nouppers)  # Use this line if running python3

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Alex

ps script written using vim and then (after a modicum of testing) 
copy/pasted into text of email