Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-27 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message i2gujh$sl...@news.eternal-september.org, francogrex wrote: By the way Peter Norvig is not biased, he works for Google research and is a supporter of programming in any language, especially in Python. Bias doesn’t have to be a conscious thing. --

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-27 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/25/2010 11:02 AM, francogrex wrote: Terry Reedy wrote: As other have said, mostly, but I would change the following... Thanks for all those who replied. I know these are not all the features but some of them and again this is not a comparison but a little taste of what python offers

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-27 Thread Mithrandir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/26/2010 11:58 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: In message i2gujh$sl...@news.eternal-september.org, francogrex wrote: By the way Peter Norvig is not biased, he works for Google research and is a supporter of programming in any language,

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-25 Thread francogrex
Terry Reedy wrote: As other have said, mostly, but I would change the following... Thanks for all those who replied. I know these are not all the features but some of them and again this is not a comparison but a little taste of what python offers today, and the replies were very informative.

Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread francogrex
Hi, I'm not a Python programmer but I'm interested in it and I found this table from Norvig that dates for some years (I re-posted it temporarily on my site below to take it out of context a little). I'm not interested in any comparisons only in the Python features ( last column), can someone

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:45:52 +0200, francogrex wrote: Hi, I'm not a Python programmer but I'm interested in it and I found this table from Norvig that dates for some years (I re-posted it temporarily on my site below to take it out of context a little). I'm not interested in any comparisons

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Peter Otten
francogrex wrote: Hi, I'm not a Python programmer but I'm interested in it and I found this table from Norvig that dates for some years (I re-posted it temporarily on my site below to take it out of context a little). I'm not interested in any comparisons only in the Python features ( last

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/24/2010 02:45 PM, francogrex wrote: Hi, I'm not a Python programmer but I'm interested in it and I found this table from Norvig that dates for some years (I re-posted it temporarily on my site below to take it out of context a little). I'm not interested in any comparisons only in

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Brian Quinlan
On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Thomas Jollans wrote: Support heterogeneous lists == Yes (array) This is nonsense, and has always been. Python lists (not arrays) have always been heterogeneous. They store objects and don't care about the type. Python arrays (from the array module) are homogeneous,

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Peter Otten
Thomas Jollans wrote: Support heterogeneous lists == Yes (array) This is nonsense, and has always been. I think you are misunderstanding that statement. Python's list stores its items in a continuous chunk of memory, a layout that is called array in common CS terminology as opposed to

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/24/2010 03:48 PM, Brian Quinlan wrote: On 24 Jul 2010, at 23:19, Thomas Jollans wrote: Support heterogeneous lists == Yes (array) This is nonsense, and has always been. Python lists (not arrays) have always been heterogeneous. They store objects and don't care about the type. Python

Re: Are those features still the same?

2010-07-24 Thread Terry Reedy
On 7/24/2010 8:45 AM, francogrex wrote: Hi, I'm not a Python programmer but I'm interested in it and I found this table from Norvig that dates for some years (I re-posted it temporarily on my site below to take it out of context a little). I'm not interested in any comparisons only in the Python