Antoine De Groote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Just to get it clear at the beginning, I started this thread. I'm not a newbie
Sorry :-) I got to this wrong conclusion because of the way I read your
message.
> an expert either, but I'm quite comfortable with the language by now. It's
> just that, when I started Python I loved it for its simplicity and for the
> small amount of code it takes to get something done. So the idea behind my
See that being "small" is not all that important. From the Zen of Python:
Explicit is better than implicit.
> original post was that the Perl/Ruby way takes even less to type (for the
> regex topic of this discussion, I'm not generalizing), and that I like a
> lot. To me (and I may be alone) the Perl/Ruby way is more "beautiful" (Python
> culture: Beautiful is better than ugly) than the Python way (in this
> particular case) and therefore I couldn't see the reasons.
You can import the re module and use regular expressions in Python, but you
probably know that.
> Some of you say that this regex stuff is used rarely enough so that being
> verbose (and therefore more readable ?) is in these few cases the better
> choice. To me this a perfectly reasonable and maybe it is just true (as far as
> one can talk about true/false for something subjective as this). I dont' know
> (yet) ;-)
It is to me. :-) If you're parsing simple structures then it might not be to
you (for complex structures you'd end up with some sort of parser).
> I just have to learn accept the fact that Python is more verbose more often
> than Ruby (I don't know Perl really). Don't get me wrong though, I know the
> benefits of this (at least in some cases) and I can understand that one opts
> for it. Hopefully I will end up some day preferring the Python way.
One thing that is also interesting: code completion. One editor can help you
write "startswith" but it can't help with "/^". The same goes for "endswith"
compared to "$/".
I just mentioned this because in the argument of "less code to write leads to
less bugs" doesn't mean that we have typed all what is written :-)
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Jorge Godoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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