Ishwor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:44:50 -0600, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ishwor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On 23 Dec 2004 14:28:37 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > My experience as a learner here is that there should be some >> > automagics & say like "okay you want to do indexing on integers ( >> > context dependent); i'll give you the index of 0th position in that >> > integer" ??? >> >> Python doesn't do things automagically. The rules for pythonic >> behavior include "Explicit is better than implicit" and "In the face >> of ambiguity, refuse the tempation to guess." Both of those are >> violated by automatic conversions and the like. >> > > Well *shrugs* that was just an opionion though a bad one from a > beginner :-)... No hard feeling pythoner friends. ;-) and Merry > Christmas to you all ;-) > Then gingerbread is ready at > http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/008798.html
I'm aware that it was an opinion from a beginner. I thought it was worth pointing out *why* this was a bad opinion in Python. I certainly didn't intend to offend or insult anyone by doing so. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list