On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 10:51:52 PM UTC+5:30, Mirage Web Studio wrote: > On 01/16/2015 08:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > Scenario: You're introducing someone to Python for the first time. > > S/he may have some previous programming experience, or may be new to > > the whole idea of giving a computer instructions. You have a couple of > > minutes to show off how awesome Python is. What do you do? > > > > I was thinking along the lines of a simple demo in the REPL, showing > > off some of Python's coolest features. But then I got stuck on the > > specifics. What are Python's best coolnesses? What makes for a good > > demo? > > > > Ideally, this should be something that can be demo'd quickly and > > easily, and it should be impressive without going into great details > > of "and see, this is how it works on the inside". So, how would you > > brag about this language? > > > > ChrisA > > hello, > > I am a newbie to python, I have dwelled in c,qt none in java. php a lot, > though I don't make money with any of those. > > The best thing I find is python is very easy, the best part maybe > because of my inexperience with other languages are the List and Dict > data types that just solved problems I had in real life made solvable > with python very easily. when I had to worry about memory and pointers > to memory in those other languages, python just made me focus on the > solution I want.
Nice point! First class concrete data structures is a blessing especially for a C programmer. Here is an old Guido workout of dicts https://www.python.org/doc/essays/graphs/ Probably can be improved to use comprehensions -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
