On 12/06/2013 04:54 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > Does anyone else feel like Python is being dragged too far in the direction > of long, complex, multiline one-liners? Or avoiding temporary variables > with descriptive names? Or using regex's for everything under the sun? > > What happened to using classes? What happened to the beautiful emphasis on > readability? What happened to debuggability (which is always harder than > writing things in the first place)? And what happened to string methods? > > I'm pleased to see Python getting more popular, but it feels like a lot of > newcomers are trying their best to turn Python into Perl or something, > culturally speaking.
I have not seen any evidence that this trend of yours is widespread. The Python code I come across seems pretty normal to me. Expressive and readable. Haven't seen any attempt to turn Python into Perl or that sort of thing. And I don't see that culture expressed on the list. Maybe I'm just blind... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
