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Bruce C. Baker wrote:
> "Terry Reedy" wrote in message
> news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-l...@python.org...
>
>> Iterators, and in particular, generators.
>> A killer feature.
>>
>> Terry Jan Reedy
>>
>>
>
> Neither unique to Python.
>
> And then're the other killer "features" s
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:07:56 +0100, mk wrote:
>> Threads are hard, and many people don't use them at all. You might
>> never get an answer, even without alienating people. Complaining after
>> six DAYS might be acceptable, if you do it with a sense of humour, but
>> after six minutes?
>
> Well, i
In article <28c6967f-7637-4823-aee9-15487e1ce...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
Julian wrote:
>
>I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
>usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
>some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why shou
geremy condra wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, mk wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, mk wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
>>
>>> Ethan Furman wrote:
>>>
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
>>
>> choose_python.pdf
>>> Choose to get your difficult questions about
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
Oh well..
With an attitude like that, you're
Julian writes:
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
Thanks for the hint, interesting stuff in there.
> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes
On Feb 5, 8:49 am, Roald de Vries wrote:
> My reasoning: I needed a language more powerful than bash, but more
> portable and faster to develop (at least small scripts) than C/C++. So
> I needed a scripting language. Python, Ruby, Perl, Tcl, ...?
>
> Python seems to be the language with the m
Steve Holden writes:
>>EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
> http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=42242
Pretty cool! I see your blog post criticizing Java's lack of type
inference, and then immediately adjacent to the post there's a banner ad
for a book called "Programm
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
> apeach a écrit :
>> I love intuitive type recognition.
>>
>> no need to 'DIM everything AS Integer' etc.!
>>
>
> not to mention the ever hilarious (that is, when you don't have to
> maintain it) typical Java idiom:
>
>EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
>
apeach a écrit :
I love intuitive type recognition.
no need to 'DIM everything AS Integer' etc.!
not to mention the ever hilarious (that is, when you don't have to
maintain it) typical Java idiom:
EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
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"Terry Reedy" wrote in message
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> Iterators, and in particular, generators.
> A killer feature.
>
> Terry Jan Reedy
>
Neither unique to Python.
And then're the other killer "features" superfluous ":"s and rigid
formatting!
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Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Trailing spaces and tabs, on the other hand, *are* invisible. But they're
also insignificant, and so don't matter.
(Except for one little tiny corner case, which I shall leave as an
exercise for the advanced reader.)
Drat, now I'm gonna be up at odd hours tonight dredg
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:22:25 -0600, Bruce C. Baker wrote:
> GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the
> ends of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of
> control statements?
They're not superfluous, they have a real, practical use.
> It will
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>> http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
>>
>>
> Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
> Oh well..
With an attitude like that, you're damn lucky i
> GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the ends
> of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of control
> statements? It will probably be as much of a shock to you as it was to me
> when I learned after studying parsing that colons, semicolons, "th
"George Sakkis" wrote in message
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I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than
trolling.
George
*
Not trolling, my friend!
GvR got it
Julian wrote:
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
Dictionaries.
A workhorse of Python, by far the most useful data structure.
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Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
Oh well..
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Jean-Michel Pichavant a écrit :
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
My all-time favorite Python feature : it fits my brain.
Python is simple ... no offense Bruno :D
!-)
But FWIW, that's exactly the point : even a stoopid like me can manage
to learn and use Python, and proceed to write working apps
On 2010-02-04, Julian wrote:
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and
> to make it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the
> stackoverflow-thread "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the
> local usergroup will have a tab
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
Julian a écrit :
Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup wi
Julian a écrit :
Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and i
On Feb 5, 2010, at 12:03 AM, Julian wrote:
Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup wil
"R Fritz" wrote in message
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My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
or when I return to code to modify it.
That might be
>> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
>> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
>> "hidden features of Python".
>>
>> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
>> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past
Ethan Furman wrote:
Julian wrote:
Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a
On 02/04/10 23:03, Julian wrote:
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
That it is ego-orientated programming ;-)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2009-April/007419.html
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Julian wrote:
Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in t
On Feb 5, 2:45 am, "Bruce C. Baker"
wrote:
> "Terry Reedy" wrote in message
>
> news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-l...@python.org...
>
> > Iterators, and in particular, generators.
> > A killer feature.
>
> > Terry Jan Reedy
+1, iterators/generators is among Python's best features for m
Julian writes:
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".
- Very easy to learn, at least for the not-too-hairy frag
Personally, I love the fact that I can type in 2**25 in the intepreter
without crashing my machine. ;)
Cheers,
-Xav
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On 4 Feb, 23:03, Julian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup wil
On Feb 4, 3:03 pm, Julian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup w
Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.
Terry Jan Reedy
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Julian writes:
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".
It's terrible, but all the alternatives are even worse. ;
My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
or when I return to code to modify it.
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Hello,
I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years th
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