On Sep 8, 9:31 pm, sturlamolden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3 Sep, 18:52, ToPostMustJoinGroup22 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I'm coming from a .NET, VB, C background. > > Any suggestions for someone new to the scene like me? > > Welcome! Unfortunately, you probably have a lot of bad habits to > unlearn. Don't use Python like another C, VB or Java. It will cause a > lot of grief, and you'll end up with the idea that Python is slow like > a slug. Python is more like Lisp or Haskell, but with a readable > syntax. There are list comprehensions, generator expressions, > dictionaries, sets, lists, list slicing, lambdas, map, reduce, filter, > closures, etc. They are there to be used, and be used a lot. Learning > to use Python efficiently is what has the steepest learning curve.
Variable argument lists, first-class function objects. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
