Paddy: > Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do > the results show who iss the better programmer?
With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter programs. Beside the language, you win if you can invent more tricks, that you have to avoid in real code, because it must be very readable. The positive side of this game is that you exercise yourself, so you get to know the programming language better, and you learn all the corner cases of your language. Knowing them is useful, to avoid them when you program for real, to avoid some kind of bugs generated by corner cases. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
