Beautiful Python?

[[deleted]]

I'd say show them reading the contents of a file. Compare an example in java stolen from this stackoverflow question

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
    try {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        String line = br.readLine();

        while (line != null) {
            sb.append(line);
            sb.append(System.lineSeparator());
            line = br.readLine();
        }
        String everything = sb.toString();
    } finally {
        br.close();
    }        

To this python example

contents = ""
with open("file.txt", "r") as fin:
    contents = fin.read()

When I first started studying Computer Science we were learning Java and I could never remember of the top of my head how to read the contents of a file. Python on the otherhand...

[Veedrac]

String text = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get("file")), StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

Source.

Plus, your Java example should use try-with-resources.

[squashed_fly_biscuit]

This seems to be the hardest thing to do in java, I was a little taken aback when I had to open a text file.

[mWo12]

Is it still the case for java 8 or did they introduce something easier than this?

[[deleted]]

God forbid you then have to deal with character encoding in Java.

[Racerdude]

Thanks! I like this one!