On Jun 26, 8:23 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > walterbyrda écrit : > > >> You do program carefully, don't you ?-) > > > I try. But things like typos are a normal part a life. > > So are they in any language. I fail to see much difference here. >
For example: if I mis-type a variable name in C, the program will probably not even compile. Whereas, with Python, the program will probably run, but may give unexpected results. > > Guido > > must think python has a lot of room for improvement since he's > > completely throwing out backward compatibility with python 3000. > > Not "completely throwing out". Just allowing *some* major breakages - > the kind you usually get with each major release of other languages, but > that Python managed to avoid as much as possible so far. I don't know, but here is a direct quote from Guido's blog: "Python 3.0 will break backwards compatibility. Totally." http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549 > > > It seems to me that tuple are essentially immutable lists. > > They are not (even if you can use them that way too). FWIW and IIRC, > this is a FAQ. A few posters here have stated that tuples are not just immutable but when I compare lists, to tuples, I notice that both are ordered collections of arbitrary objects, with the primary difference being that list are mutable, and tuples are not. It seems to me that if a list were immutable, it would be a tuple. That is the one big difference. Tuples have been compared to records/structures in other languages. But, in general, I can not use a for loop to loop through the fields in a record, and I can not sort those fields either.
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