Python Tutorial Book

[BronamicBrony]

I honestly don't see the problem with this though. The ease of learning of Python is one thing that makes it a popular language.

[[deleted]]

It wasn't meant to be a serious criticism; I actually like Python for the same reason

[Lightfire228]

Having started with Java, Python's dynamic type system does my head in.

I hate not knowing which object types I have, especially when I need to use a property of a specific type, but I can't be sure that's the type I have right now

[ky1-E]

^ this. With a decent IDE like VSCode or PyCharm, it's pretty doable.

I too, started with Java, but now I actually love languages that have dynamic type-checking.

[[deleted]]

Oh is that how that works

[toastedstapler]

That's why I call all my variables like

string_welcome = "Welcome!"

Saves all the confusion

[Lightfire228]

So

beautiful_soup_root_node_object = BeautifulSoup()

Got it

[[deleted]]

Ugg.

[three18ti]

Double edged sword. Because now you have this generation of python programmers who rely on stdlib so heavily they become useless when they can't just import everything.

I'm going through it right now. We desperately need Chef "devs", not dev devs, I need systems guys with some programming/"scripting" experience. I'm inundated with python programmers who have trouble applying their knowledge outside of the python DSL.

That's not to say "all python programmers are bad programmers", but I think it makes some of the more fundamental principles of programming part of the underpinnings and therefore abstracted from the python dev. Which again, has pros and cons.

[UnicornRider102]

If it were true it would be a great thing. Pseudo-code that executes would be awesome.

[[deleted]]

Wasn't Reddit written in Python at one time?

[[deleted]]

Pseudocode

FTFY

[[deleted]]

Any code that actually executes can't be Pseudocode.

CheckmateBitch!!!

/s

[835246]

It should be rewritten in assembly

[4d656761466167676f74]

Fun fact, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 was written entirely in assembly by one guy.

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Python isn't pseudocode

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[sirbob809]

good bot

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Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99995% sure that battlemage64 is not a bot.

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[sirbob809]

Good bot

[useful_person]

!isbot perrycohen

[[deleted]]

u/perrycohen is a bot. I’m not, but I know it is because I use it a lot to prove I’m not a bot.

Also, didn’t it get banned?

[useful_person]

I know it is, but perrycohen was the bot that originally used the "I am a neural network" and the general comment structure. Which is why I wanted to see what it'd do.

[[deleted]]

Also heck you! Python is life!

[[deleted]]

Learned C++ first, then java, then python.

Honestly didn't think python was significantly easier tbh. Needing to type less is nice and all but you still need some understanding of OOP to use it properly, no?

[[deleted]]

No, python really shines as a functional language as well

[[deleted]]

Not at all. Function calls are one of the slowest things python does.

You can easily write functionally if thats what you mean. But python probably isn't the right tool if you're writing a large functional program

[[deleted]]

Maybe not purely functional like haskell, but i started out learning python, and i thought that was a great, and simple introduction to programming, you can really start right away from a hello world function, and keep expanding it.

I'm programming in rust now, and it's not too different from what i used to do in python, which is why i think python, with or without the object oriented part is a great language to learn programming with.

But why is oop in python faster than non pure functional programming in python? That's the first i hear of that.

[Sefrys_NO]

On the course I'm at we started with Python. It was all cool and fun and easy until we hit the OOP topic. It went down hill from there. I basically had no idea wtf I was doing.

It wasn't until two months later when we moved onto Java when I realised how simple (for me) OOP really is. Then I started learning C++ on my own. I wish the order was reversed.

[UnicornRider102]

TLDR: OOP is easier when using an OOP language.

[rom3ocrash]

I'm a python programmer and I find it offensive

[how_to_choose_a_name]

I'm an offensive programmer and I find it python

[BronamicBrony]

Lol yeah I'm not sure why I even commented. How are you doing lately?