Re: That's really high-level: bits of beautiful python

2006-02-22 Thread Jeffrey Schwab
Max wrote: I have a friend who has been programming in C for many years, and he is a great fan of the language. However, he (and I) are about to start a python course, and he has been asking me a lot of questions. He often responds to my answers with Urgh! Object-orientation! and suchlike.

Re: That's really high-level: bits of beautiful python

2006-02-22 Thread gene tani
Jeffrey Schwab wrote: Max wrote: I was just thinking perhaps we should create some kind of collection of bits of impressive code like this. Do you mean something like the ASPN Cookbooks? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/ repositories, indexes and search engines for py

That's really high-level: bits of beautiful python

2006-02-21 Thread Max
I have a friend who has been programming in C for many years, and he is a great fan of the language. However, he (and I) are about to start a python course, and he has been asking me a lot of questions. He often responds to my answers with Urgh! Object-orientation! and suchlike. But today we

Re: That's really high-level: bits of beautiful python

2006-02-21 Thread Rocco Moretti
Max wrote: But today we were discussing the problem of running externally-provided code (e.g. add-on modules). Neither of us knew how to do it in C, though I suggested using DLLs. However, I quickly installed python on his laptop and coded this: exec import %s as ext_mod %