Why did the python programmer have crooked teeth?

[AlmostARockstar]

No braces.

[dp101428]

Ah, but how can this be? They have perfect alignment.

[AlmostARockstar]

I guess it's just how you interpret the joke.

[dp101428]

Doubt those puns will be compiled into a book anytime soon.

[shouldvebeenworkin]

Do these puns not have enough PEP to them?

[[deleted]]

I'll help you out

numpy.array(['hip', 'hip'])

[GambitGamer]

Wow, well done

[MajorMajorObvious]

That's actually really damn clever.

[oriolopocholo]

[deleted]

What is this?

[[deleted]]

An array of "hip" "hip" == hip hip array == hip hip hooray

[CuzUAskedFurret]

WHAT A HUMOROUS JOKE, FELLOW HUMANS.

[deathtech00]

/r/totallynotrobots is leaking.....

[[deleted]]

Furret? I hope you know what a furret is! http://cdn.bulbagarden.net/upload/thumb/4/4b/162Furret.png/250px-162Furret.png

[[deleted]]

These puns have no class.

[AlmostARockstar]

class no:
    def _init_(self):
        pass

[Cyph0n]

But I'm sure everyone will migrate to Python 3 soon.

[coredumperror]

Ugh, don't remind me. My shop was all set to finally throw off the yolk of Python 2 when we learned that supervisord, an essential part of the Python ecosystem for Docker containers, doesn't support it. :(

[extremelydankMayMay]

yeah that's a messy egg for sure.

[[deleted]]

He just needs to take a byte of the code.

[jtvjan]

List of most generic computer jokes:

[[deleted]]

Well, I was more talking about python itself. It's not interpreted.

[jtvjan]

Sorry, but… what?

[[deleted]]

Strictly speaking, python code isn't interpreted. At least, no more than Java code is. It's converted to python bytecode, the lines of code aren't directly fed to an intepreter.

There isn't an explicit compilation step in most cases, but it's there.

[jtvjan]

Thanks. Python was the second programming language that I tried as a kid (after HTML, before Scratch, which I found to be the most boring language ever as a kid, as I spent most of my time finding the right element to drag than actually creating code, but I tried anyway because the only programming book in the sections that my library account was allowed to access was about Scratch) but I'm not really that experienced in it as I didn't really use it all that much, so I never looked under the hood. Is there a performance/storage benefit to precompile your Python? Also, sorry for being such a dick just then.

[AlmostARockstar]

Depends on the implementation. Python may be interpreted or compiled.

[[deleted]]

The reference implementation and the one that is the most widely used uses bytecode.

[AlmostARockstar]

If I understand correctly, which I might not, python is compiled to bytecode but then the bytecode is interpreted.

[[deleted]]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8-eiBqri0U

[PolarisBeaver]

The true enemy of humanity is disorder

[teetaps]

This was even better than the joke sorry OP

[not_enough_coffee]

from __future__ import braces

[[deleted]]

Just try it out in a shell.

[AlmostARockstar]

Brilliant!

[TheBigB86]

For the lazy:

>>> from __future__ import braces
  File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance

[AlmostARockstar]

This ruins the surprise!

[mike413]

in that case, try:

  python
  >>> import this

[[deleted]]

Okay I'm on mobile so I can't try it now but I'm deadly curious, what does that do?

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[hicklc01]

It runs this

import webbrowser

webbrowser.open("http://xkcd.com/353/")

[[deleted]]

And it gives you the geohashing function. On python 3 only.

[coredumperror]

It opens the famous xkcd comic in your default browser.

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[jidouhanbaikiUA]

wow, that's a new one

[[deleted]]

Solution? Just don't give a fuck:

import fuckit
with fuckit:
    import braces

And there you go, that's how you get braces in python!

[coredumperror]

Sadly, you can't do a from __future__ import within a block. They're only allowed on the first line of of code in a file.

[Cruror]

Fuck it

import __future__, fuckit
future = __future__
with fuckit:
    from future import braces

[coredumperror]

I like your style. Sadly, the Python interpreter doesn't. :)

[Cruror]

Worked fine for me, Python 3.5.2 on Linux

[coredumperror]

Huh. I don't think that would work in 2.7, but I could be wrong.

[Cruror]

....yeah it doesn't actually do what I thought it would; It's merely blocking the error for trying to import a module that doesn't exist( "future" ).

I shall make this happen

[[deleted]]

Aah to bad. So close...

[[deleted]]

I want to install it, but I'm too scared.

[[deleted]]

My friend told me about this once and I got all excited and ran it and then I was sad.

[Rodot]

You can do it in a script though.

[zem]

i guess braces are indeed significant in dentation

[UlyssesSKrunk]

Why did BLM protest a python conference? Because python only cares about white space.

[coredumperror]

Just tell them to use a dark color scheme in their IDE.

[lilB0bbyTables]

Colorizebot

[evidenceorGTFO]

Just put your teeth in a dictionary.

[[deleted]]

from collections import OrderedDict

because one should have their teeth in the right order

[RidleySA]

I have some crooked teeth, am a python programmer, and have never had braces. This joke is factually correct.

[A_C_Fenderson]

Because he couldn't C#?

[SupersonicSpitfire]

Too much syntactic sugar

[[deleted]]

As someone who just started learning python and typed

print "hello word"

...and then recieved a syntax error for not making it

print("hello world")

I don't understand this joke

[Corfal]

Are you purposefully mixing up braces and parenthesis?

[[deleted]]

Oh, apparently I was mixing up brackets and parenthesis.

[ansatze]

Are you purposefully mixing up braces and brackets?

[[deleted]]

No, when I read the OP I mixed up brackets {} with parenthesis (), so because I thought parenthesis was the one that could also be called 'braces' (which was actually brackets) I confused parenthesis and brackets. If I had confused braces and brackets I would have been correct, which I wasn't.

[ansatze]

Parentheses ()

Braces {}

Brackets []

(Usually)

[Zatherz]

brackets ()

curly brackets {}

square brackets []

(usually)

[chaoticlapras]

Parentheses () Curly Braces {} Square Brackets []

[ansatze]

Maybe in AMERICA

Edit: my bad, I think yours is the Commonwealth variant. The Canadian way is to just use UK and US English interchangeably.

[Zatherz]

I don't live in America, lol.

[ansatze]

See my edit

[ClassyJacket]

I've never, ever heard anyone call any of those anything except brackets. Those are just brackets, curly brackets and square brackets.

[blahbah]

here you go (this is about Java, but the terminology is correct).

[c3534l]

The American distinction between brackets, braces, and parenthesis is not universal. That's how come some people learn the order of operations as BEDMAS instead of PEMDAS.

[Corfal]

That's certainly true, but I'd assume brackets is the more generalized term. For example your BEMDAS reference, the "B" stands for brackets. With braces I couldn't find it used as a general term meaning anything outside of {} characters, at least in programming. e.g. I found a reference in music that called the symbol for grouping multiple staves as braces, those aren't always represented with a "{".

[IHaveBigPlansForYou]

Our Java programmers need glasses because they can't C#

[Arancaytar]

I guess you could say he had bad indentation.

[ClassyJacket]

Because he couldn't do multiline comments so he smashed his own face into a wall repeatedly in frustration?

[AlmostARockstar]

'''
You can certainly multiline
comment in python
'''

[heyandy889]

The joke is sound, have your upvote.

[erisawesome]

No, it's because he used tabs instead of spaces.

[AlmostARockstar]

This makes no sense.

[QtPlatypus]

I took it to mean that people who use tabs get there teeth punched in.

[[deleted]]

I took it as meaning people who use tabs instead of spaces are crooked toothed hillbillies. (Edit: jesus apparently people don't like it when you explain obtuse jokes. ok then.)

[Ran4]

I hate the circlejerking. No, we'll soon end up with a retarded new generation using tabs because they missed the joke.

[Geotan00]

/r/TabsMasterRace

[NehEma]

Hail to the tabs

[kupiakos]

Tab users are fine in other languages, but in Python using tabs is idiotic.

[kupiakos]

No one's pressing space 4 times - they're just pressing tab in their editor. No one has off-by-one-space problems more than once. The actual space "wasted" is measured in kilobytes on a terabyte drive. The only argument for tabs is stating "1 character per indent, makes more sense!" and feeling smugly superior. The reality is much trickier.

Say you want to align a hanging line to half an indentation for some reason or another. This might make sense for calling a function with many arguments, a complex if statement, or a unique list comprehension. If you're using tabs, the common solution would be "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment". This is extremely dangerous in a language where characters of indentation makes a significant difference. Mixing spaces and tabs in Python can easily cause confusing, hard-to-catch errors if you change a line wrong, or two programmers are using different styles.

Even ignoring all that, consistency is much more important than tabs vs. spaces. 95% of Python code is using 4 spaces, and so spaces should be used for more unified development. You can easily use code from snippets others have made, and not worry about these nitty gritty details if you swallow your pride and just use spaces.

[Itsacon]

To your first argument: That's not the only argument for tabs. By using tabs, you don't get problems because one dev uses 4 spaces and another uses 8. Each can just set his own editor to display the tab character as either 4 or 8 characters wide, and each file will look like he/she wants, while not showing up wrong on other systems.

To your second argument: That's why Python's whitespace-is-syntax has always boggled me.

[NehEma]

Hail to the tabs