On Sunday, March 17, 2013 10:18:16 AM UTC-3, Albert Vonpupp wrote:
Hello pythonistas,
I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
I have to prepare a presentation
On 20/03/2013 22:55, Albert Vonpupp wrote:
On Sunday, March 17, 2013 10:18:16 AM UTC-3, Albert Vonpupp wrote:
Hello pythonistas,
I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
Hello pythonistas,
I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to
learn something new to me as well.
Thanks
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
You're in luck :) Raymond Hettinger just gave Python is Awesome keynote at
PyCon. You can view the slides at
https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/pycon-keynote-python-is-awesome, video will
follow -
Albert Vonpupp wrote:
Hello pythonistas,
I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to
learn
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Albert Vonpupp wrote:
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.
Amongst our weapons are
- Generators
- Duck-Typing
- The Interactive Interpreter
and an almost
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:21:45 +1100
Subject: Re: Top 10 python features
From: ros...@gmail.com
To: python-list@python.org
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Peter Otten __pete...@web.de wrote:
Albert Vonpupp wrote:
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important
On 3/17/2013 10:00 AM, Miki Tebeka wrote:
I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features
(on your opinion) in python.
You're in luck :) Raymond Hettinger just gave Python is Awesome
keynote at PyCon. You can view the slides at
I was thinking about the different features of Python that have an
impact on performance. Here are the obvious ones I could think of:
Features most impactful on performance:
- function calls
- loops
Features least impactful on performance:
- imports
- function definitions
- class definitions
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com wrote:
So, which are the other pieces of Python that really need the heavy
optimization and which are those that don't? Thanks.
Things that are executed once (imports, class/func definitions) and
things that primarily wait
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:00:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com
wrote:
So, which are the other pieces of Python that really need the heavy
optimization and which are those that don't? Thanks.
Things that are executed once
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info wrote:
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 04:00:17 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 2:58 AM, Eric Snow ericsnowcurren...@gmail.com
wrote:
So, which are the other pieces of Python that really need the
$ python -c import this
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Bruce C. Baker wrote:
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message
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Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.
Terry Jan Reedy
Neither unique to Python.
And then're the other killer features
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
Oh well..
With an attitude like that,
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in
geremy condra wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:07 PM, mk mrk...@gmail.com wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult
In article 28c6967f-7637-4823-aee9-15487e1ce...@o28g2000yqh.googlegroups.com,
Julian maili...@julianmoritz.de wrote:
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table
On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:07:56 +0100, mk wrote:
Threads are hard, and many people don't use them at all. You might
never get an answer, even without alienating people. Complaining after
six DAYS might be acceptable, if you do it with a sense of humour, but
after six minutes?
Well, it's 4
cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
For me as an electronics HW guy, I really like that I can easily
handle binary data without doing tedious and error prone shifting and
anding and oring.
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Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message
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Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.
Terry Jan Reedy
Neither unique to Python.
And then're the other killer features superfluous :s and rigid
formatting!
--
apeach a écrit :
I love intuitive type recognition.
no need to 'DIM everything AS Integer' etc.!
not to mention the ever hilarious (that is, when you don't have to
maintain it) typical Java idiom:
EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
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Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
apeach a écrit :
I love intuitive type recognition.
no need to 'DIM everything AS Integer' etc.!
not to mention the ever hilarious (that is, when you don't have to
maintain it) typical Java idiom:
EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com writes:
EveryThing theEveryThing = new EveryThing();
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=42242
Pretty cool! I see your blog post criticizing Java's lack of type
inference, and then immediately adjacent to the post there's a banner ad
for a book
On Feb 5, 8:49 am, Roald de Vries r...@roalddevries.nl wrote:
My reasoning: I needed a language more powerful than bash, but more
portable and faster to develop (at least small scripts) than C/C++. So
I needed a scripting language. Python, Ruby, Perl, Tcl, ...?
Python seems to be the
there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
whatever, please give
On 02/04/10 23:03, Julian wrote:
cut
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
That it is ego-orientated programming ;-)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-announce-list/2009-April/007419.html
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mph
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http
a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost
there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
whatever, please give it to me
R Fritz rfritz...@gmail.com wrote in message
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My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
or when I return to code to modify
will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread
there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
My all-time favorite Python feature : it fits my brain.
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will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
My all-time favorite Python feature : it fits my brain
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years
there were some people that came to the python-table just to
ask why should I use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes
the most popular and beloved python features.
In the fine old tradition
Jean-Michel Pichavant a écrit :
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:
My all-time favorite Python feature : it fits my brain.
Python is simple ... no offense Bruno :D
!-)
But FWIW, that's exactly the point : even a stoopid like me can manage
to learn and use Python, and proceed to write working apps
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
Oh well..
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Julian wrote:
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
Dictionaries.
A workhorse of Python, by far the most useful data structure.
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George Sakkis george.sak...@gmail.com wrote in message
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I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than
trolling.
George
*
Not trolling,
GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the ends
of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of control
statements? It will probably be as much of a shock to you as it was to me
when I learned after studying parsing that colons, semicolons, then's
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:29:07 +0100, mk wrote:
Ethan Furman wrote:
http://www1.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/faculty/isaac/
choose_python.pdf
Choose to get your difficult questions about threads in Python ignored.
Oh well..
With an attitude like that, you're damn lucky if you
On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:22:25 -0600, Bruce C. Baker wrote:
GvR got it right when he discarded the superfluous semicolons from the
ends of statements--and then he ADDS superfluous colons to the ends of
control statements?
They're not superfluous, they have a real, practical use.
It will
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Trailing spaces and tabs, on the other hand, *are* invisible. But they're
also insignificant, and so don't matter.
(Except for one little tiny corner case, which I shall leave as an
exercise for the advanced reader.)
Drat, now I'm gonna be up at odd hours tonight
there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
whatever, please give it to me, google
My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
or when I return to code to modify it.
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Julian maili...@julianmoritz.de writes:
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
It's terrible, but all the
Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.
Terry Jan Reedy
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, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.
So, may you help me please
Personally, I love the fact that I can type in 2**25 in the intepreter
without crashing my machine. ;)
Cheers,
-Xav
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Julian maili...@julianmoritz.de writes:
I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask why should I
use python?.
- Very easy to learn, at least for the
On Feb 5, 2:45 am, Bruce C. Baker b...@undisclosedlocation.net
wrote:
Terry Reedy tjre...@udel.edu wrote in message
news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-l...@python.org...
Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.
Terry Jan Reedy
+1, iterators/generators is
In message mailman.985.1254933855.2807.python-l...@python.org, Jean-Michel
Pichavant wrote:
Being a vi fan, I can just tell you that emacs is for loosers, and no
one will dare to challenge this.
Is it better to be loose or tight?
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On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:44:03 +0200, Jean-Michel Pichavant
jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote:
: When opposing vi to emacs, there's is no possibility you get
: constructive and objective answer, because basically, what can do with
: one, you can also do it with the other.
You seem rather
On Wed, 2009-10-07, OdarR wrote:
hello,
* this is not a troll *
which kind of help you have with your favorite editor ?
Syntax highlighting and help with the indentation (move to the
right after an else:, keep in the same column normally, etc).
Nothing else specific to Python.
personnally,
Hey guys,
this is supposed to be a Python mailing list...
Both editors are great and are with great potentials. I do use both of
them daily, though for different purposes. It is meaningless to start
this old issue of preferences anew.
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On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 12:59:00AM EDT, TerryP wrote:
On Oct 8, 3:29 am, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
[..]
It's most valuable for sending data to an existing instance of vim, by
name. Both files and keystrokes can be sent fwiw.
[..]
On top of that, I sometimes group instances of
On Oct 10, 6:13 pm, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm.. On *nix systems, decent applications understand the $EDITOR
environment variable - don't know about gnome friends, though.
I tend to write programs that understand EDITOR, BROWSER, etc; wish
the rest of the world did.
So what
Chris Jones wrote:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:06:08PM EDT, TerryP wrote:
[..]
I am a freak: I do not use nor want syntax highlighting. I don't want
my editor to understand mail, irc, or the www either, I want it to
edit text efficiently so I can go on with the rest of my life as soon
as
On Oct 7, 10:07 am, OdarR olivier.da...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
* this is not a troll *
which kind of help you have with your favorite editor ?
personnally, I find emacs very nice, in the current state of my
knowledge, when I need to reindent the code.
you know how this is critical in
On Oct 8, 7:23 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com
wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:06:08PM EDT, TerryP wrote:
[..]
I am a freak: I do not use nor want syntax highlighting. I don't want
my editor to understand mail, irc, or the www either, I want it to
But in actual practice you use a space cadets editor like Vim.
Ross Ridge
Actually by space cadets editor, I meant needing one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_cadet_keyboard
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hello,
* this is not a troll *
which kind of help you have with your favorite editor ?
personnally, I find emacs very nice, in the current state of my
knowledge, when I need to reindent the code.
you know how this is critical in python...:-)
I don't use other python-mode features for the
OdarR wrote:
hello,
* this is not a troll *
which kind of help you have with your favorite editor ?
personnally, I find emacs very nice, in the current state of my
knowledge, when I need to reindent the code.
you know how this is critical in python...:-)
I don't use other python-mode
On Oct 7, 10:44 am, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com
wrote:
OdarR wrote:
hello,
* this is not a troll *
which kind of help you have with your favorite editor ?
personnally, I find emacs very nice, in the current state of my
knowledge, when I need to reindent the code.
On 7 oct, 18:44, Jean-Michel Pichavant jeanmic...@sequans.com wrote:
Being a vi fan, I can just tell you that emacs is for loosers, and no
one will dare to challenge this.
vi is very good for newbees, I recommend it.
vi/emacs is like choosing between the Celtics or the Lakers, there is no
One feature I have that emacs don't is that I'm able to efficiently edit
a file on a remote machine with vim on a terminal (without graphical
interface), and I'm using it. Apart from that, both solutions are
emacs has the same efficiency on a terminal.
or maybe I don't understand your sentence.
Apart of trolling which is also an activity I like,
what are the features vim proposes to Python ?
Olivier
Many, but none that you won't find with emacs, so when I'm stating it is
just a matter of personal preference, I mean it :o) Vi or Emacs is the
same question as straight or gay
On 7 oct, 19:29, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
Perhaps this is a reference to the alt/meta/control/buckey/super
key-chords that emacs is infamous for using that don't always get
reliably transmitted by all terminal-emulation programs and
consoles. It was one of my nudging
I typically use several editors: /bin/ed, nvi, EDIT.COM, and Vi
Improved.
These are the advantages that I find these various editors give me:
ed -- I can quickly edit files without having to wait on an ncurses
app to start up. Although I rarely have access to GNU versions of ed,
they use
On Oct 7, 10:29 am, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
One feature I have that emacs don't is that I'm able to efficiently edit
a file on a remote machine with vim on a terminal (without graphical
interface), and I'm using it. Apart from that, both solutions are
emacs has the
Carl Banks wrote:
On Oct 7, 10:29 am, Tim Chase python.l...@tim.thechases.com wrote:
Perhaps this is a reference to the alt/meta/control/buckey/super
key-chords that emacs is infamous for using
It's Esc-Meta-Alt-Ctrl-Shift
Sure that's not Winkey+Tab+Fn? :-)
-tkc
:wq!
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:06:08PM EDT, TerryP wrote:
[..]
I am a freak: I do not use nor want syntax highlighting. I don't want
my editor to understand mail, irc, or the www either, I want it to
edit text efficiently so I can go on with the rest of my life as soon
as possible. Given the
On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:32:16 -0700, Carl Banks wrote:
One feature I have that emacs don't is that I'm able to efficiently
edit a file on a remote machine with vim on a terminal (without
graphical interface), and I'm using it. Apart from that, both
solutions are
emacs has the same
On Oct 8, 3:29 am, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
I do have a question:
You mentioned Vim's clientserver mode.
What's it good for?
It's most valuable for sending data to an existing instance of vim, by
name. Both files and keystrokes can be sent fwiw.
vim basically organizes it self
On Oct 7, 8:29 pm, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
Always felt that syntax highlighting for instance is way
overrated.
I have all syntax colors turned off except for strings and comments.
I highly recommend this low-key syntax coloring for those who don't
care for the normal psychodelic
Carl Banks pavlovevide...@gmail.com writes:
On Oct 7, 8:29 pm, Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
Always felt that syntax highlighting for instance is way
overrated.
I have all syntax colors turned off except for strings and comments.
I highly recommend this low-key syntax coloring for
I'm creating a new language which borrows from Python (among other
languages), and I'm curious what features of Python its users enjoy the
most.
I posted a similar thread on ruby-talk with a poll, but unfortunately my
background in Python is much weaker than it is in Ruby. That said, here are
Andrew Dalke wrote:
Peter Dembinski wrote:
If you want to redirect me to Google, don't bother. IMO ninety percent
of writings found on WWW is just a garbage.
Sturgeon's law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
does that apply to sturgeon's law itself?
(fwiw, this is of course why google
Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
does that apply to sturgeon's law itself?
(fwiw, this is of course why google displays 10 results on the
first page. according to the law, one of them is always exactly
what you want).
+ 1 QOTW :-)
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On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:02:42 +0200, Andr Roberge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
google for python and functional; first link:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-prog.html
[...]
Imperative programming languages are the most commonly used languages.
Examples of this
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Dembinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 08 May 2005 10:02:42 +0200, André Roberge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Imperative programming languages are the most commonly used languages.
Examples of this type of language are C, C++, Ada, Fortran, Algol, Java,
There are three main types of programming languages.
* Imperative
* Functional
* Declarative
animals are divided into:
* those that belong to the Emperor,
* embalmed ones,
* those that are trained,
* suckling pigs,
* mermaids,
* fabulous ones,
* stray dogs,
* those included
Quoting from that link:
There are three main types of programming languages.
* Imperative
* Functional
* Declarative
Aren't functional languages a subset of declarative?
(c.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declarative_programming)
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of writings found on WWW is just a garbage.
Sturgeon's law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.
Andrew
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To which degree python language support features of following langauage
categories?
Imperative, Object Oriented, Scriptig or Functional.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To which degree python language support features of following langauage
categories?
Imperative, Object Oriented, Scriptig or Functional.
Sounds like a homework assignment to me How about your do some
research on your own, like the following:
google for
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