On Sat, 17 Jan 2015 02:03:57 +1100, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> 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? I can only say what made me sit up and take notice. 1. I found it already on my computer. 2. It seemed to be used to run the Gramps genealogy program, which is quite complex. I was impressed. 3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length and were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 characters. -- Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list