On Mar 13, 10:05 am, Brett g Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > I'd be interested in hearing people's stories of Eureka moments in Python, > > moments where you suddenly realise that some task which seemed like it > > would be hard work was easy with Python. > > Mine was definitely when I was first working with the xmlrpc module, and > I was puzzled to no end how it was that I was able to make a call to a > method of an object when that method didn't exist. All the talk about > Python being a dynamic language had bounced off of me until that moment, > when I walked through the __getattr__ method in the debugger and was > enlightened. > > Not surprisingly, that was also the moment when C++ started feeling like > a straightjacket to me...
Started? Meaning there was a time when it DIDN'T feel like a straightjacket? If I were a journalist, this would be all over the news... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
