Python Code Snippets

rzed rzantow at ntelos.net
Thu Jul 3 20:13:01 EDT 2003


Behrang Dadsetan wrote:
> Guyon Morée wrote:
>> You're gonna love this :)
>>
>> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python
>>
>>
>> "Aurélien Géron" <ageron at HOHOHOHOvideotron.ca> wrote in message
>> news:be1hs0$111s$1 at biggoron.nerim.net...
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anyone know where I can find a lot of Python code snippets?
>>>
>
> Or you might want to just look around here. In this
> newsgroup/mailing-list one gets to see really lots of nice code.
>
> One that I would nominate as the best test for measuring a hard-core
> python programmer would be to explain the following code without the
> context :)
>
> Karl Scalet wrote:
>  > there are very likely easier ways, but at least
>  >
>  > s = 'C6 H12 O6'
>  > print [' '.join(xx) for xx in apply(
>  >     zip,[(x[0],x[1:]) for x in s.split()])]
>  >
>  > gives some results,
>  >
>  > Karl
>
> Once I understood the above, I beleive I will write python in my
> Resume...
>
> What was this about "One simple obvious way doing it"? ;)

Obviously, this is just what people mean by "syntactic sugar."

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