--- a/python/a8e.py	Wed Jul 13 16:09:11 2016 -0700
+++ /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-
-import sys
-import urllib2
-
-def a8e(text):
-  text = text.split()
-  retval = []
-  for word in text:
-    if len(word) < 4:
-      retval.append(word)
-    else:
-      retval.append(word[0] + '%d' % (len(word) - 2) + word[-1])
-  return ' '.join(retval)
-
-def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
-  if len(args) == 1 and (args[0].startswith('http://')
-                         or args[0].startswith('https://')):
-    text = urllib2.urlopen(args[0]).read()
-  else:
-    text = ' '.join(args)
-  # TODO: read from stdin if no args
-  print a8e(text)
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-  main()
-