which feature of python do you like most?

[jmdeschamps at gmail.com]

James wrote:
> Most of the responses are of the "Why Python is more pleasant than C++"
> variety, but the original poster specifically said he had experience
> with Perl.  As such, arguments like "automatic memory management" don't
> carry any weight.
>
> >From my experience as both a Perl and Python user--and I do prefer Perl
> for many tasks--the big win for Python is when you have complex data
> structures: dictionaries containing arrays, arrays of arrays, array of
> dictionaries, and so on.  This kind of thing is awkward in Perl (you
> need to use references), but perfectly natural and obvious in Python.

Well, I didn't know Perl when I was asked to teach a Web development
class. I had heard that Perl was CGI standard... So I started to do
some Perl and was aghast at what I needed to learn (I don't like
special caracters that make code look like martian poetry). Then I read
some articles pertaining to Python and CGI and look up that language (I
had read a comment by a Java-C++ Guru, favorable to Python).

Wow, I understood everything I was reading, and I could think of how
other things might work, and by god, they did very often.  Like some
others have said elsewhere: Python fitted my brain! That's what made it
special for me! and it still feel like this to this day!

I hope it works for you, if not maybe some other one will (Ruby, Lua,
Haskell, O'Caml, C# ;-)  )




Never looked back since...