Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread William Pursell
On 5 Aug, 16:08, Brett Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 4, 3:43 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A page of Python code looks *clean*,  with not a lot of > > punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines > My first impression of Python was that it was vi

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Paddy
On Aug 4, 8:06 pm, iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... > > I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing > writing small scripts. > I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. > > I'm curious, what did Python co

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Ben Finney
brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gary Herron wrote: > > > A page of Python code looks *clean*, with not a lot of > > punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines > > containing {/} or begin/end or do/done (or whatever). > > what about all those 'self' thingys? :) Nice, cle

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Brett Ritter
On Aug 4, 3:43 pm, Gary Herron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A page of Python code looks *clean*,  with not a lot of > punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines I am actually going to buck the trend. My first impression of Python was that it was visually hard to parse. When

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Tyler Breisacher
To paraphrase this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24) (which is the Randall Munroe, author of the famous xkcd (http://www.xkcd.com/), giving a talk at Google), "you just type the pseudo-code and it runs! And as someone said, if Python is executable pseudo-code, then Perl is exec

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread rynt
On Aug 4, 12:06 pm, iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... > > I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing > writing small scripts. > I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. > > I'm curious, what did Python c

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread brad
Gary Herron wrote: My impression was (and still is): A page of Python code looks *clean*, with not a lot of punctuation/special symbols and (in particular) no useless lines containing {/} or begin/end or do/done (or whatever). what about all those 'self' thingys? :) -- http://mail.python.o

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:20:18 -0300, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before knowing Python? To me it looked like the pseudo-code used

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-05 Thread Santiago Romero
> I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have > seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before k Clean and readable. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Mel
Ben Finney wrote: > iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or Lisp for the first time looked like many words, no operators, how >> could that make a program???) > > I had no referent with which to compare Lisp when I first saw it. I > did wonder "if the program is so nicely indented anyway, why are al

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Ben Finney
iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have > seen a bunch of Python code for the first time before knowing Python? To me it looked like the pseudo-code used for describing algorithms, allowing clear understanding and redesign of the algo

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Mensanator
On Aug 4, 2:06 pm, iu2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... > > I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing > writing small scripts. > I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. > > I'm curious, what did Python co

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Gary Herron
iu2 wrote: Hi, This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing writing small scripts. I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have seen a bunch o

Re: What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread Larry Bates
iu2 wrote: Hi, This is a little bit strange post, but I'm curious... I learned Python from its tutorial step by step, and practicing writing small scripts. I haven't seen a Python program before knowing Python. I'm curious, what did Python code look like to those of you who have seen a bunch o