Dustan wrote: > 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... >
If you're born wearing a straightjacket, I'm sure that it feels natural and fine until the first time someone unties it... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
