On Monday, December 22, 2014 4:21:13 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Awww, did da widdle puddy tat get up on the wrong side of the bed this > morning? :-) > > > Obviously you don't write obfuscated code like this for production use, > except in such cases where you deliberately want to write obfuscated code > for production use. > > Any beginner with 3 seconds experience with Python can write: > > print "Hello World" >
Bad Boy -- Stand in the corner for forgetting the '()' [Good boys use python3] On a more serious note... > Tony the Tiger wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Dec 2014 23:57:08 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > > >> I am in total awe. > > > > I'm not. It has no real value. Write your code like that and you'll soon > > be looking for a new job. If a python teacher wanted, that blog has enough internal python mechanisms on display strung together into a cute result for a number of lectures. [If only I could wrap my brain round it all] IOW learning language-L and real world programming in L are quite different. Related to 1. People read programs far more often than they write 2. Different types of vocabularies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabulary#Degree_of_knowledge and next -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
