Ville Vainio wrote: > Regarding a Java programmer moving to Python, a lot of the mindset > change is about the abundant use of built in data types of Python. So > a Java programmer, when confronted with a problem, should think "how > can I solve this using lists, dicts and tuples?" (and perhaps also my > new favourite, sets). Class-based solution should be chosen only after > seeing that the problem can't be trivially solved with built-in types.
Hmmm, but isn't it the same as a Java programmer who's familiar with the Collection Framework? (Which has list, dict (map), and set)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list