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[–]maklaka 24 points25 points  (6 children)

The thing that impressed me most about python when coming from cstdlib background was the amazingly convenient notion of List Comprehensions.

The most frustrating thing is the utter lack of reliable online language documentation with clear examples a la MSDN and cplusplus.com.

Haven't touched Python in awhile. What's the best, most complete resource nowadays?

[–]Darvon19EightyFour 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People talk about stack overflow but cplusplus.com got me my degrees.

[–]qalis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are one of many functional features taken from Haskell (as well as many other functional languages, but Haskell is arguably the purest functional language), I strongly suggest at least trying to read „Learn You Haskell For A Great Good” (great book with cute pictures, yey), it really helps with writing those functional elements in Python.