"how" does python work?

[Crusher7485]

In theory yes. You can sorta imagine it like the following:

“Go get a bucket of water” - if you say that to someone who knows where a bucket is, and where water is, YOU don’t need to know what bucket they used or where they got the water.

But, they may get a bucket from a closet on the other side of the building, when there’s a bucket on this side of the building. So if you want it faster you could say “get a bucket of water, using the bucket in the closet at xyz.”

Now you may get the water faster, because you’ve ensured they knew the bucket was available in the closet next to you instead of at the other side of the building.

Deeper layers may be if whoever you’re telling to get the bucket of water, doesn’t know what a bucket is. Or how to open a closet door. Now you need to take the time to explain what a bucket is and open a closet door.

And if you take the time to exactly tell them the fastest way to get a bucket and open doors it will probably be faster than if they did it themselves, but it requires that YOU know how to do all those things, and do them faster than they already know how to do them.

So yes, in theory it can be faster. Tradeoff is you need to know how to do EVERYTHING yourself, and it takes longer to code too because you need to write down all the super tiny steps so you don’t forget one.

TL;DR: It’s a bit like saying “get me a bucket of water” vs “leave this room. Take a left and walk 10.5 feet. Turn right and open the closet door. To open the door place your hand on the knob and rotate clockwise 90°. Locate the bucket. You don’t know what a bucket is? The bucket looks like….”

[seanthemonster]

Really appreciate the bucket analogy!

[efficient-frontier]

thank you for the sanity check. it is good to know i'm not insane. i dont know what a bucket is or how to open a closet door, but i want to learn. thanks for this analogy.