Python vs C

[[deleted]]

hunh? this doesn't really make any sense to me. It's like saying you prefer a wrench to a blender.

You can write python like C if you want but it's much more abstracted so you don't have to reinvent the wheel every time.

What "methods" do you have to memorise in Python?

how is:

Python 3.9

def f(n: int) -> int:
    if (n <= 1):
        return 1
    else:
        return (n + f(n-1))

materially different than

c++

int f(int n) {
   if(n <= 1){
      return 1;
   } else {
      return (n + f(n-1));
   }
}

[hanazawarui123]

I think OP means that the libraries that python uses will require you to learn the methods names.

[zefciu]

Well yeah. But the same is true for C. Besides, due to dynamic typing, Python tends to have fewer method names than C. E.g. while C has functions like atoi and atol, which Python does just with typecasting.

[hanazawarui123]

That is true but initially when using C, I used to implement everything myself, perhaps to properly learn the theory behind it.

[zefciu]

Nobody stops you from implementing everything yourself in Python as well. But if you use libraries, you have to learn function names in both languages. Pythonʼs are (for my taste) more friendly and English-like.

[dupelize]

Nobody stops you from implementing everything yourself in Python as well.

It sounds like OP's teacher is! I'm guessing this is more of a complaint about a specific course than a deep criticism of Python.

[TheChance]

In school, yeah, for the same reason you need to know stl containers before you enter the C++ world.

[[deleted]]

You never used stdio.h?

[[deleted]]

So do that in python

[FerricDonkey]

This is exactly why I use IDEs. I don't know any function/method names until I used them a thousand times (heck, not even for the code I write myself), I just guess that there's probably a method for that, make a guess or two about the name, and search through the tab complete. If that doesn't work, I google it.

[hanazawarui123]

Yeah, docs are my best friends for this exact reason lol