Tom Anderson wrote:
> So, if you're a pythonista who loves map and lambda, and disagrees with
> Guido, what's your background? Functional or not?
I avoid map sometimes, because I find its syntax less readable
than list (and expression) comprehensions. But occasionally it
is the most readable way t
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> Lambda is no more an obscure name than "function", "decorator", "closure",
> "class", or "module". The first time you come across it, you don't know
> what it means. Then you learn what it means, and then you know.
I believe you've made two errors here. First of all, "lam
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote:
> I often find myself writing::
>
> class grouping:
>
> def __init__(self, x, y, z):
> self.x = x
> self.y = y
> self.z = z
> # real code, finally
>
> This becomes a serious nuisance in complex applications
Up until a few years ago, I ran the computer science department at a
high-school. I provided support for the English teachers who taught
*all* students -- but they taught things like the use of a word
processor or the internet, and never covered the meaning of "lambda". I
taught a computer applicat
On Nov 11, 7:38 pm, Vincent Manis wrote:
> 1. The statement `Python is slow' doesn't make any sense to me.
> Python is a programming language; it is implementations that have
> speed or lack thereof.
[...]
> 2. A skilled programmer could build an implementation that compiled
> Python code into
