New to Python: my impression v. Perl/Ruby

[Ville Vainio]

>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Tomson <ptkwt at aracnet.com> writes:

    Phil> Different strokes for different folks, I guess.  I remember
    Phil> that one of the first things I saw about Ruby was that even
    Phil> interger literals were objects that can receive messages and
    Phil> thinking how wonderful that was.  As you say, you're not

Ints are objects in python too:

>>> a=1
>>> a.__lshift__(1)
2

Though "sending messages" to int literals is a syntax error.

    Phil> 10.times do something end

    Phil> is somehow so clear.  It's almost zenlike.

It's cute and fun to write, but less cute for people who have to read
lots of such code in short time. I have a soft spot for such style
also; I kinda like Python's "\n".join(["foo","bar"]), even if most
seem to consider it a wart for readability reasons.

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Ville Vainio   http://tinyurl.com/2prnb