This post comes from a boring morning, if you are busy ignore this. This post is only for relaxed people.
I've found this page, "Syntax Across Languages", it contains many errors and omissions, but it's interesting. http://merd.sourceforge.net/pixel/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html Compared to the other languages Python comes out rather well, in quick scan only few things look better in other languages (usually all/most things are possible in all languages, so it's often just a matter of brevity, elegance, etc): - Nestable Pascal-like comments (useful): (* ... *) - Information about the current line and file as Ruby: __LINE__ __FILE__ Instead of the python version: inspect.stack()[0][2] inspect.stack()[0][1] - ~== for approximate FP equality - comparison returns 4 values (i.e. inferior, equal, superior or not comparable), as in Pliant: "compare" - identity function: "identity" as in Common Lisp (probably of little use in Python). - Exception retrying: after catching an exception, tell the snippet to be re-run "retry" as in Ruby - object cloning: obj.copy() obj.deepcopy() - accessing parent method: super as in Ruby, instead as in Python: super(Class, self).meth(args) - recursive "flatten" as in Ruby (useful) Probably there are some errors of mine too, there are many things I don't know aboyt Python yet. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
