On 02/24/2013 11:40 AM, piterrr.dolin...@gmail.com wrote:
Back in the day when C was king, or take many newer long established languages (C#,
Java), the use of () has been widespread and mandated by the compilers. I have never
heard anyone moan about the requirement to use parentheses. Now come Python in which
parens are optional, and all of a sudden they are considered bad and apparently widely
abandoned. Do you really not see that code with parens is much more pleasing visually? I
could understand someone's reluctance to use parens if they are very new to programming
and Pythons is their first language. But my impression here is that most group
contributors are long-time programmers and have long used () where they are required.
Again, I'm really surprised the community as a whole ignores the programming
"heritage" and dumps the parens in a heartbeat.
Python will also allow you to have ';' at the end of your lines. It does nothing for you, but perhaps you also find
that "visually pleasing"?
I find () to be four extra keystrokes, not visually pleasing, and needed only
to override order of operations.
One of the things I love about Python is its ability to get out of the way and
let me work:
- no variable declarations, just use 'em
- no type declarations, just use 'em
- no need to remember what's an object and what's not -- everything is an
object
- no need to cast to bool as everything has a truthy/falsey (something vs
nothing) value
From a different email you said PyScripter was showing you all the dunder methods? You might want to try one of the
others.
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