Looking for resources for making the jump from Java to Python easier and more productive

[bruno at modulix]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> In article <1145691651.385835.298600 at u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com>,
>  "ToddLMorgan" <ToddLMorgan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm looking for the common types of mistakes that say a Java/C# or
>>even C++ developer may commonly make.
> 
> 
> Using subclassing when you don't have to. For instance, you might have a 
> Java method which takes an argument of type java.io.OutputStream to 
> which it writes. You might translate this to a Python method to which 
> you are careful to only pass instances of subclasses of file objects. 
> But in fact there is no necessity for this: you are free to pass any 
> object which has appropriate members.
> 
> I suppose this is an instance of the more general rule: "using OO when 
> you don't have to".

Lawrence, I'm afraid you're confusing OO with "statically-typed
class-based". FWIW, dynamic typing is part of OO since Smalltalk.

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bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"