There are various things I like about the D language that I think Python too may enjoy. Here are few bits (mostly syntactical ones):
1) (we have discussed part of this in the past) You can put underscores inside number literals, like 1_000_000, the compiler doesn't enforce the position of such underscores, so you can also put them like this: 1_00_000. You can put them in literals of decimals, binary, hex, etc. I think it's quite useful, because when in Python code I have a line like: for i in xrange(1000000): I need some time to count the zeros, because the lower levels of my visual systems can't count/group them quickly (perceptually). While in a syntax like: for i in xrange(1_000_000): my eyes help me group them at once. 2) Base 2 number literals, and base 2 "%b" printing with the writefln. Base-2 numbers are less common in Python code, but once in a while I use them. For example: import std.stdio; void main() { auto x = 0b0100_0011; writefln("%b", x); writefln("%.8b", x); writefln(x); } Prints: 1000011 01000011 67 3) All string literals are multi line. So you can write: a = "how are you"; There's no need for """ """. 4) With D I have created an xsplit() generator, and from my tests it's quite faster than the split(), expecially if the string/lines you want to split are few hundred chars long or more (it's not faster if you want to split very little strings). So I think Python can enjoy such string method too (you can probably simulate an xsplit with a regular expression, but the same is true for some other string methods too). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list