[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What do you use in your dairy work with python?
Cows hate snakes! > which feature of python do you like most? Various success stories: http://pythonology.org/success Eric Raymond: http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr Bruce Eckel: http://www.artima.com/intv/aboutme.html (and see follow-on conversations) Wingware (nice list): http://wingware.com/python/benefits Kevin Altis' link collection: http://altis.pycs.net/stories/2003/04/16/whatIsPythonAndWhyPython.html If Python doesn't already maintain an official "list of benefits", maybe it should. Probably many in this group have a personal laundry list. Here's mine: - Interactive interpreter for various testing of expressions before inserting into actual source code file. - Built-in types have powerful default functionality. - Portability via virtual machine. No need to build for multiple architectures/platforms. And already installed on any platform worth caring about. - Can write code at many levels of quality: robust (using classes, exceptions, data protection, etc.) or rapid (a script with no hierarchical constructs). Scales very well for large projects. - No proprietary lock-in. - Libraries such as optparse, logging, ply, etc. allow for reusable components in very few lines of code. - Automatic memory management. - Lack of static typing. - Built-in documentation/help system. - Adheres to UNIX philosophy. - Intuitive process management. - Robust/powerful regular expression engine. - Syntax is very clean and readable/maintainable: executable pseudocode. Language is compact; can hold entire language in head: idioms and library routines. Only a couple books required to be completely up-to-speed on language. - Strong integration with other languages (even though I don't use this... yet). - Ease of introspection/meta-programming. - Fast GUI building. - Only one (sometimes two) way to do things right. - Rapid creation of unit tests (pyunit, doctest, hybrid). - Very simple exception handling (automatic propagation) makes usage more common, manageable. - String-handling features better than other languages. - Many fewer lines of code necessary to accomplish a task than with other languages. - Very supportive and active community. -- _ _ ___ |V|icah |- lliott http://micah.elliott.name [EMAIL PROTECTED] " " """ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
