python gripes survey

[Gonçalo Rodrigues]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:14:30 GMT, Afanasiy <abelikov72 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Aug 2003 15:39:27 GMT, "Ryan Lowe" <ryanlowe0 at msn.com> wrote:
>
>>python is a big improvement on most languages that came before it, but no
>>language is perfect. id like to make a list of some of the aspects people
>>find most annoying, regardless of their feasibility of implementation. for
>>instance, i discussed putting if clauses in for loops, and i noticed another
>>thread about allowing {} and [] to be added and subtracted. if its something
>>from another language (especially an obscure one), please explain how it
>>works in case people like myself dont know the language.
>>
>>thanks,
>>ryan
>>
>
>I have a bunch, many of them hard to define, but one that I just thought
>of I find strange sometimes is the use of tuples as near-mystery return
>values. I can't help but thinking a C struct with named fields is easier
>to remember than a tuple with fields accessed by integer.
>
>Sure you can return an associative array, but in my experience the
>preference is to return a tuple. I'll probably get flamed for saying so,
>but this is how I feel and it is unavoidable. Returning a struct in C is
>easier to deal with than returning a near-mystery tuple in Python.

Look up my recipe in the ActiveState cookbook:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/218485

With my best regards,
G. Rodrigues