Learning Python

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 06/24/2009 05:15 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> I'll second this, with a caveat: Python is not C/C++, and this tends
> to be something that the Python community repeats like a mantra.
> Things work differently, and you're sometimes better off forgetting
> what you know about those languages, and embracing the Python way.
> There are times when you can do it the way you'd do it in C, but it's
> 10 times more efficient to do it in a more "Pythonic" way (either in
> terms of coding, or program performance, or both).  But the idioms are
> very easy to learn.=20
>  =20
IMHO, this is the proper way to code in any language. When writing in C
you code in C, when writing in C++ you code in C++, et. al. We'll  see
what gets onto my plate.

--=20
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