On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 09:21, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:20:24 -0500, J wrote: > >> The difference between me (learning a new language) and the guy teaching >> (who knows it inside and out) > > I don't know about that. He's teaching some pretty atrocious habits. See > below.
Ok... I snipped it because I don't know enough really to comment on any one thing... I supposed in his defense, I could say that the point of the exercise had nothing to do with exception handling, and the part that DID handle exceptions covered a good bit on actually catching individual exceptions for various things, as well as doing things like writing extensions to handle things. Also, consider that this is a "boot camp" that's geared toward getting you up to speed and writing functional code as quickly as possible. One week has gone from "This is a string variable and you can iterate it" to This is file operation, OS and SYS usage, exception handling, etc... really, just in 4 days. The last day, I think just covers database access and operations and a brief overview of python web development and the cgi module. It's more an intense introduction for people who already know how to write code (not necessarily, though, ones who know how to write it properly) than it is a formal "This is how you write code the right way". I'm not necessarily trying to make excuses, but, that's my take on it. All I wanted to get out of it was familiarity with Python, a refresh of OOP practices, and the ability to get REALLY started on some projects quickly, making the code pretty and better afterwards... Thankfully, I've got places like comp.lang.python and various books and online references to help me take what I know and make it better, but as a starting point, at least, it's not terrible. Now, that all being said... how atrocious was my OWN code sample. I'm a firm believer in constructive criticism, so I'd like to know how I'm doing so far. I can provide other samples if necessary, because I DO want to learn to write this cleanly and properly. Keep in mind that while I DO know how to write programs, the only thing I've really written in in 3 years now is BASH. It's been ages since I did anything in any other languages to amount to anything, and if I did, it was something quick and dirty that got the job done and that was that, not something I'd really want to give to anyone else to use... Hackery if you will... Cheers, Jeff -- Ted Turner - "Sports is like a war without the killing." - http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/ted_turner.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
