"Sunnan" == Sunnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sunnan> It's just that I'm having a hard time matching that quote
Sunnan> to what I though python was about. I thought boring code
Sunnan> was considered a virtue in python.
There's a difference between unsurprising and boring.
The coffee
Sunnan wrote:
Aahz wrote:
(snip)
print "foo is", foo
Is the space added automatically? (Like awk does, if you add a comma.)
Yes. But you can also format it how you like:
print "foo is %s and that's a good news, my friends" % foo
--
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[:
Sunnan:
> The python code I've read so far has looked like that. Not > type
declarations, but lng class declarations.
What do you mean? Lots of repetitive
"self.variable=variable" in the __init__ method? Use of classes when
you would use closures? Or maybe you
are comparing with CLOS classes,
> "Sunnan" == Sunnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sunnan> Ville Vainio wrote:
Sunnan> Also, Guido recently urged people to explicitly write
Sunnan> recursions rather than to use reduce - which I thought was
Sunnan> completely in line with what I've seen as python's goals:
Ville Vainio wrote:
Boring code is code that numbs your senses with constant flow of
boilerplate crap, memory management and redundant type declarations
and general blah blah that you skip when you are trying to figure out
what a piece of code does.
The python code I've read so far has looked like
> "Sunnan" == Sunnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sunnan> It's just that I'm having a hard time matching that quote
Sunnan> to what I though python was about. I thought boring code
Sunnan> was considered a virtue in python. ("Explicit is better
Sunnan> than implicit", "sparse i
Aahz wrote:
Note very, VERY, *VERY* carefully that the quote says nothing about
"boring code". The quote explicitly refers to "reams of trivial code"
as boring -- and that's quite true. Consider this distinction:
Thank you for this important clarification.
if foo == 'red':
print 'foo
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sunnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> [Aahz]
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death.
Tim Peters wrote:
[Aahz]
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR
[Sunnan]
Can anyone please point me to the text that quote wa
[Aahz]
>> "The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
>> classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
>> not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR
[Sunnan]
> Can anyone please point me to the text that quote was taken
Aahz wrote:
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable
classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code --
not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR
Can anyone please point me to the text that quote was taken from? I
tried
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