On 01/16/2015 08:33 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Scenario: You're introducing someone to Python for the first time. > S/he may have some previous programming experience, or may be new to > the whole idea of giving a computer instructions. You have a couple of > minutes to show off how awesome Python is. What do you do? > > I was thinking along the lines of a simple demo in the REPL, showing > off some of Python's coolest features. But then I got stuck on the > specifics. What are Python's best coolnesses? What makes for a good > demo? > > Ideally, this should be something that can be demo'd quickly and > easily, and it should be impressive without going into great details > of "and see, this is how it works on the inside". So, how would you > brag about this language? > > ChrisA
hello, I am a newbie to python, I have dwelled in c,qt none in java. php a lot, though I don't make money with any of those. The best thing I find is python is very easy, the best part maybe because of my inexperience with other languages are the List and Dict data types that just solved problems I had in real life made solvable with python very easily. when I had to worry about memory and pointers to memory in those other languages, python just made me focus on the solution I want. also the way I can read python program just like they are written in plain eglish :) a personal problem I tried to solve is that how many characters exist in a sequence statistically (with 2 or more characters in len) in any given file and then their count. For a 100kb file I used practially all programming knowledge in from the other languages but failed miserably as the computation were taking more time with each bigger chunck of file. I would have to do a lot of memery management with python using those style like deleting list and dict before adding another. but when I tried to solve the problem natively with python it just took a blink of an eye for them to solve upto 50kb file. but for larger files although instant it is just memory consuming since I was limit with 2 gb I ddin't poke further. this was my exp and I find programming fun in python like ironman talking to jarvis keep computing!!! GCM -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
