[OT] New to Python: Features

[Richard Blackwood]

Eugeni Doljenko wrote:

>>> You're kidding, right. Right ? Without brackets ? That's... that's just
>>> not possible is it ?
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>> In certain languages it is.  I think Lua lets you do it but more 
>> certainly I know Ruby does.
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> I'd love language that will let me call functions with square 
> brackets. square brackets are so sweet.
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> seriously, Ruby is syntactical madness.
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I'm not preaching Ruby or madness.  But Ruby does let you go without the 
parenthesis when calling a function as long as the argument is a string 
I think is the rule.  Ruby isn't quite so pretty as Python I would agree.