On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 5:05 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote:
> "Got a switch statement? The Python translation is a hash table, not a bunch
> of if-then statments. Got a bunch of if-then's that wouldn't be a switch
> statement in Java because strings are involved? It's still a hash table. "
I actually di
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> On Saturday 23 November 2013 02:01:26 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > * Python is not Java, and Java is not Python either:
> >
> > http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
> > http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html
>
> Thanks for all th
On 11/27/2013 11:05 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote:
> Thanks for all those references.
> There's this statement in the first article:
>
> "Got a switch statement? The Python translation is a hash table, not a bunch
> of if-then statments. Got a bunch of if-then's that wouldn't be a switch
> statement in
On Saturday 23 November 2013 02:01:26 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> * Python is not Java, and Java is not Python either:
>
> http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/python-is-not-java.html
> http://dirtsimple.org/2004/12/java-is-not-python-either.html
Thanks for all those references.
There's this statement in t
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> (Fifteen years. It's seventeen years since Unicode 2.0, when 16-bit
>> characters were outmoded. It's about time _every_ modern language
>> followed Python's and Pike's lead and got its Unicode support right.)
>
> M
Chris Angelico writes:
> (Fifteen years. It's seventeen years since Unicode 2.0, when 16-bit
> characters were outmoded. It's about time _every_ modern language
> followed Python's and Pike's lead and got its Unicode support right.)
Most languages that already have some support for Unicode have
Le lundi 25 novembre 2013 16:11:22 UTC+1, Michael Torrie a écrit :
> I only respond here, as unicode in general is an important concept that
>
> the OP will to make sure his students understand in Python, and I don't
>
> want you to dishonestly sow the seeds of uncertainty and doubt.
>
>
>
> O
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> Have you encountered a real-world situation
> where you are impacted by Python's FSR?
Python 3.3 was released back in September 2012, over a year ago. As
far as python-list can be aware, nobody - but nobody - has had any
problem with it exc
I only respond here, as unicode in general is an important concept that
the OP will to make sure his students understand in Python, and I don't
want you to dishonestly sow the seeds of uncertainty and doubt.
On 11/25/2013 03:12 AM, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
> Your paragraph is mixing different co
On 25/11/2013 10:12, wxjmfa...@gmail.com wrote:
Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 03:01:26 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
* Python 3 (although not Python 2) is one of the few languages that get
Unicode *right*. Strings in Python 3 are text, sequences of Unicode
characters, not a thinly disguised b
Le samedi 23 novembre 2013 03:01:26 UTC+1, Steven D'Aprano a écrit :
>
>
>
> * Python 3 (although not Python 2) is one of the few languages that get
>
> Unicode *right*. Strings in Python 3 are text, sequences of Unicode
>
> characters, not a thinly disguised blob of bytes. Starting with Pyt
Thank you very much, that's much more detailed than I dared to hope for, it's
going to be a great help. :) Since the course will begin in January, I'm just
starting to prepare, I'm happy to hear any other ideas, comments.
Thank you all,
Mate
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On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Teach that python has builtins, not keywords - IOW, you can redefine list or
> int, but you probably shouldn't. pylint helps with this.
Well, Python has keywords, but uses builtins for many things that
other languages use keywords (or magic
I almost forgot: Talk about pypi and pip (or similar) too.
On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM, wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm about held a short course with the title indicated in the subjects.
>> The students are very experienced programmers of our company, with deep
>> knoledge on C, C++, C#, Perl a
Teach that Python emphasizes readability. Perhaps talk about bugs /
lines_of_code being roughly a constant. Then talk about the fact that
Python generally takes fewer lines of code to express the same thing. This
implies fewer bugs for many projects.
Teach the fundamental types, with difference
On Friday, November 22, 2013 6:59:19 PM UTC-5, koch...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm about held a short course with the title indicated in the subjects. The
> students are very experienced programmers of our company, with deep knoledge
> on C, C++, C#, Perl and similar languages, but very li
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:59:19 -0800, koch.mate wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm about held a short course with the title indicated in the subjects.
> The students are very experienced programmers of our company, with deep
> knoledge on C, C++, C#, Perl and similar languages, but very limited, or
> absolute
Hello,
I'm about held a short course with the title indicated in the subjects. The
students are very experienced programmers of our company, with deep knoledge on
C, C++, C#, Perl and similar languages, but very limited, or absolutely no
knowledge on python.
what would you teach to such a grou
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