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

2008-08-05 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 for

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? :) --

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 code look

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

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 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, clear,

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 code look

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 visually

What Python looks like

2008-08-04 Thread iu2
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 of Python

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

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

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 code look

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

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 all these