To all those who talked about hating the symbology in Perl and the suggestion that it should be removed from a later version. I just remembered what you get for that symbology that I really do like about Perl: variable interpolation in strings:
C: sprintf(newstr,"%s %d %f",s,n,r); Becomes a little nicer in Python with: newstr = '%s %d %f' % (s,n,r) Although it's worse with: newstr = s + ' ' + str(n) + ' ' + str(r) But in my mind nothing beats the Perl statement: newstr = "$s $n $r"; for clarity, ease of use, and maintainability. Jeff _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
