My take on 'Python Productivity tip for Java Programmer'. Could you give me more feedback?

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony Kong
Hi, all, Lately I am giving some presentations to my colleagues about the python language. A new internal project is coming up which will require the use of python. One of the goals of the presentations, as told by the 'sponsor' of the presentation, is to help the existing Java/Excel VBA

Re: My take on 'Python Productivity tip for Java Programmer'. Could you give me more feedback?

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/11/2011 05:07 PM, Anthony Kong wrote: Hi, all, Lately I am giving some presentations to my colleagues about the python language. A new internal project is coming up which will require the use of python. One of the goals of the presentations, as told by the 'sponsor' of the

Re: My take on 'Python Productivity tip for Java Programmer'. Could you give me more feedback?

2011-07-11 Thread Anthony Kong
Thomas, Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Generator is certainly an interesting subject. From what i understand, the advantage of generator is mainly about saving memory, right? (i.e. no need to create a list in memory before iterate thru it) Duck typing... Although it can be easily

Re: My take on 'Python Productivity tip for Java Programmer'. Could you give me more feedback?

2011-07-11 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/11/2011 06:42 PM, Anthony Kong wrote: Thomas, Thanks for the excellent suggestions. Generator is certainly an interesting subject. From what i understand, the advantage of generator is mainly about saving memory, right? (i.e. no need to create a list in memory before iterate