> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Sconce [mailto:sconce@;in-spec-inc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer
>
>
> Price, Erik writes:
>
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bill Sconce [mailto:sconce@;in-spec-inc.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:20 AM
> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Subject: Re: Humor: The Evolution of a Programmer
> >>
> >
> >
> >> Extra credit, what will the following do (if you've just
> >> stepped through the statements above)?
> >>
> >> >>> print somefile
> >
> > I may be mistaken, but doesn't it print the address of the
> > object "somefile"?
>
>
> Well, er, yes. And something else, which was the actual
> point.... pretty much unrelated... no big deal.
>
> However, it may be worth mentioning that it's The Python Way
> to, whenever possible, not guess, but to Just Try It. Much
> of the language's design is directed at making this not only
> possible, but easy.
>
> It is OFTEN easier in Python to try it than to guess.
> (Also, easier to try it than to RTFM... :)
Well, that would have been cheating. Here's what it really gives:
>>> fh = open(".bashrc")
>>> fh
<open file '.bashrc', mode 'r' at 0x8165d90>
> At least that's how _I_ develop Python programs. 85% trying
> things, 75% of which get thrown away, all of which takes
> 15% of the time "real coding" would have taken, and yielding
> 5% of the errors I'd get in other languages. 95% of the errors
> get thrown away with the 75% of the things tried.
The two things I like best about Python are its ease of use in OO
design and implementation (this is one place where I wouldn't go
near Perl) and its interactive interpreter. It is just as you say,
a great way to shave time off development, since you can literally
interact with your program in realtime.
I really like it, I just wish there was a truly portable graphics
library (as in, "installed by default on all systems"). I have
been meaning to try out Jython, for that matter....
Erik
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