kirby urner wrote: >What I like about namespaces is the idea is intuitively obvious to >anyone spending any time in academia, because every professor is one. >It takes time to learn just what each means by this or that key term, >although supposedly in math it's easier, because all the definitions >are agreed upon in advance, axioms too, plus rules of deduction, so >the theorems also. > >My idea of a good first move, after booting some Python GUI shell for >the first time, is to go dir(). > >IDLE 1.2b2 > > >>>>dir() >>>> >>>> >['__builtins__', '__doc__', '__name__'] > >Already the filling is: we're not alone. And what are those weird >__xxx__ things. They look strange. Thinking like a computer >scientist, you mentally pair tics and decide we have three quoted >words, like a list of some time. See? Python fits your brain. >You're already thinking like a pro. Instead of words we say strings, >and a space is just one more character (ASCII 32). > >
Damn it if I don't agree. Exactly where I would start as well. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
