Good points. I guess being as new as I am I'm not always sure of the obvious way to do something or what I think is right, may not be an having explained examples are best, particularly after I've spent time solving the problem.
But others may not find this useful. I admit that learning this stuff does not come particularly easy to me, so I tend to need more hand holding than others. Becky On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Che M <pine...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > But the reason I ask this, is because there are SO many different > approaches you could > > take to a single problem, > > I guess that depends a lot on what sorts of problems you are thinking in > terms of. At least in many cases, perhaps one of the points of the Zen of > Python is useful: > > "There should be one--and preferably only one--obvious way to do it." > > I myself have been trying to stick to that for now; to learn some standard > ways to do certain things, to not reinvent the wheel but instead to use the > standard library and modules to do what I need done (since someone already > needed it done before and coded it well then). Yes, gaining more > flexibility in how you could approach something is also good, but for > learning I have tried to establish a core of basic approaches first, and > alternate approaches second. I feel that if it works, it's readable, > simple, and re-usable, I put it in the toolbox. > > > > how do you know which is correct or why one is better than the > > other? You can dig yourself in to holes with more complex problems, and > not understand > > why. > > This list is one good resource for comparing notes on "correctness" of > approach. You'll see people ask if something is "Pythonic" or not, etc. > > > > ------------------------------ > Windows 7: Unclutter your desktop. Learn > more.<http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/videos-tours.aspx?h=7sec&slideid=1&media=aero-shake-7second&listid=1&stop=1&ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_7secdemo:122009> > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > >
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