On 2005-12-11, Rick Wotnaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Make a grocery list. Do you terminate each item with > punctuation? Write a headline for a newspaper. Is > actually, I do. i write as much as fits in one line and separate items with comma.
> > may find Python's set strange at first. Please try it, and > don't fight it. See if your objections don't fade away. If > you're like most Python newbies, you'll stop thinking about > I'm not Python newbie. I wrote a good deal of non-trivial python code, and I still don't like it and still find it very annoying. > > brackets before long, and if you're like a lot of us, > you'll wonder what those funny squiggles mean when you are > forced to revert to one of those more primitive languages. > Actually, after I learned Python, I value "funny squiggles" in other languages even more. It's very annoying, for example, that I can't split a long line in the following way: print a + b + c + d print "other statement" I guess I'm required to insert some unneccessary () around the long expression to disable the white space parsing.. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
