Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-19 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
In message 49e30ac0$0$6828$5fc3...@news.tiscali.it, Francesco Bochicchio wrote: Which is pretty sensible, since good engineering is often based more on choosing the right trade-off rather than choosing the One Right Thing to do. Yes, but remember that, too, is a tradeoff. Moderation is fine,

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-13 Thread Francesco Bochicchio
John Yeung ha scritto: On Apr 11, 10:08 am, Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com wrote: Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. A couple of others have already mentioned the Zen of Python, available

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-12 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Pythonic--an acid, capable of reacting with bases to form pythanates? Would it be an organic or inorganic acid? Deprive it of a bit of oxygen, and it becomes pythonous, reacting to form pythonites. What do you mean, the fume cupboard's broken down? Honestly I feel fine... --

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-12 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Sun, 12 Apr 2009 08:16:19 -0300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro l...@geek-central.gen.new_zealand escribió: Pythonic--an acid, capable of reacting with bases to form pythanates? Would it be an organic or inorganic acid? Deprive it of a bit of oxygen, and it becomes pythonous, reacting to form

Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread Emmanuel Surleau
Hi there, I'm starting an exploratory foray into Python, being generally dissatisfied with the Ruby ecosystem (while the language is wonderful, third party libraries and documentation are not). Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread Tim Chase
Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. Judging from Python, it seems to exclude (mostly) magical variables like '$.'. Is this right? What else would you include in this definition? At the python

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread skip
Emm Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to Emm how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. Try import this at your friendly, neighborhood Python prompt. -- Skip Montanaro - s...@pobox.com - http://www.smontanaro.net/ XML sucks,

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread Aahz
In article mailman.3700.1239458914.11746.python-l...@python.org, Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com wrote: Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. Judging from Python, it seems to exclude (mostly)

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread John Yeung
On Apr 11, 10:08 am, Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com wrote: Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. A couple of others have already mentioned the Zen of Python, available at the Python command

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread MRAB
John Yeung wrote: On Apr 11, 10:08 am, Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com wrote: Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. A couple of others have already mentioned the Zen of Python, available at

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread Emmanuel Surleau
On Saturday 11 April 2009 18:00:58 John Yeung wrote: On Apr 11, 10:08 am, Emmanuel Surleau emmanuel.surl...@gmail.com wrote: Having written a few trivial scripts in Python, I'm curious as to how you would sum up the Pythonic philosophy of development. A couple of others have already

Re: Definition of Pythonic?

2009-04-11 Thread Mark Wooding
John Yeung gallium.arsen...@gmail.com writes: A couple of others have already mentioned the Zen of Python, available at the Python command prompt. I would agree with that, but also add the caveat that none of the principles expressed there are hard-and- fast rules. Indeed, I'd suggest that