SV: Python Productivity over C++

[Moshe Zadka]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Eric Lee Green wrote:

> Michal Vitecek wrote:
> >  this is highly debatable - properly written C/C++ source is pretty well
> >  readable and self-documenting. similarly, badly written python source
> >  makes it as unreadable as in other languages - there's not a point in
> >  trying to prevent people from writing (un)readable source code.
> 
> It's harder to write unreadable Python source because you can't write code
> like, hmm,
> 
> opendir(FOO,\"%s\");@files=readdir(FOO);foreach (@files) { if
> (/^[^\\.].*\\.txt$/) { print \"%s/$_\\n\";};};closedir(FOO);

import os,re
for _ in os.path.listdir("%s"): if re.match("^[^.].*\.txt$': print(
"%%s/%(_)s" % vars())

writing-obfuscated-python-isn't-that-easy-ly y'rs, Z.

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