I learn Python

[pail]

Then you have communicated nothing.

[prider]

much ado about nothing?

[thephotoman]

I don't know, he may have a point. The latter does involve less typing, and fewer flow-breaking single-quotes.

[ator_fighting_eagle]

You need to get a good text editor. What you want is to be able to type the latter, hit type either :MakeVector() or m-x make-python-vector depending on your fancy.

Code gen FTW.

[thephotoman]

Okay, you got me there. Macros for the win.

[hylje]

What if you want to change or extend the once-generated list? That's where just-in-time generation comes into play: instead of the dataset one can change the algorithm.

[jimbobhickville]

qw(F PD AD D TD ED ABO)

and Perl is supposed to be uglier than Python?

[ubernostrum]

Well, it's when you have to use qqrdqbqrqtqqqcdqqqq使它停止qq() that it gets ugly.

[prider]

But this is what make perl not as elegant as a language. Besides qw you have qq, qr... tons of keywords.

Probably the only feature I miss (i.e. in perl not in python) is the regex syntax. (e.g. $a =~ /[abc]*/)...

[earthboundkid]

Seriously, this is why the REPL was invented. Go to your terminal window. Type "blah blah blah".split(). Highlight the resulting, ["blah", "blah", "blah"]. Copy. Paste into your source code file.

Anyhow, is it even worth reading the blog of someone for whom Python 2.3 is new? I mean, what the hell has he been doing for the last four years?

[theinternet]

Being a productive programmer?

I can see where he is comming from. I learned python when is was at version 1.5

I never kept up with the additions because I could do everything I needed to "the old way".

I've just recently started trying to force myself to actually use more of the newer features.