On 4-5-2015 17:20, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > Potential dangerous bug introduced by programming in Python as if it > was C/Java. :-( > I used: > ++tries > that has to be: > tries += 1 > > Are there other things I have to be careful on? That does not work as > in C/Java, but is correct syntax. >
That is a broad question, but one thing that comes to mind is the current (python 3) behavior of integer division. It gives the exact result and doesn't truncate to integers: >>> 5/4 1.25 To be prepared for the future you should probably use python's time machine and enable this behavior for 2.x as well by from __future__ import division. Another thing is that functions are first class citizens in Python. Java will give a compiler error if you forget to call them and leave out the parentheses (I think Java 8 allows it though). Python will accept passing them on as a function object just fine. If you do this by mistake you will probably get an exception a tiny bit down the line, at runtime. But it is syntactically correct so your code will compile without error. -irmen -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
