Max wrote: > I have a friend who has been programming in C for many years, and he is > a great fan of the language. However, he (and I) are about to start a > python course, and he has been asking me a lot of questions. He often > responds to my answers with "Urgh! Object-orientation!" and suchlike.
After "many years" of C programming, he's still wary of object orientation? > But today we were discussing the problem of running externally-provided > code (e.g. add-on modules). Neither of us knew how to do it in C, though > I suggested using DLLs. It depends on how the module was provided, and on the platform and tool chain being used to build the code. It's typically not too hard on a given platform, once you get used to it, but there's certainly no single correct answer. > However, I quickly installed python on his > laptop and coded this: > > exec "import %s as ext_mod" % raw_input("Module: ") > ext_mod.do() exec'ing raw_input'd code gives me the willies. > And created to sample modules with do() functions to demonstrate. He was > impressed ("That's really high-level" were his words). It is cool, isn't it? :) > I was just thinking perhaps we should create some kind of collection of > bits of "impressive" code like this. Do you mean something like the ASPN Cookbooks? http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/ If you keep track of some examples of "cool" stuff, I'll format them and get some web space to post them. Try to give credit for each example. > He also liked 99 Bottles in one line: > > print '\n'.join(["%d bottles of beer on the wall." % i for i in > range(100,0,-1)]) A little shorter: for i in range(99, 0, -1): print("%d bottles of beer on the wall." % i) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list