Python is fun (useless social thread) ;-)

[Remi Villatel]

John Salerno wrote:

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> So out of curiosity, I'm just wondering how everyone else came to learn 
> it.
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I just needed it. I needed it to recode text files from my old Atari 
computer for my Linux box. I had already seen Python sources during some 
googling sessions and found them mostly understandable. I also knew it 
was already installed so I decided to give it a try.

One night was all I needed to write my "recoder" with nothing more to 
help me than the (cryptic) included docs and the examples. Yes, 8 hours 
and I had learned arguments passing, files operations, strings 
manipulations and even module import with no prior knowledge. I fell in 
love with Python.

I still have the source, it's very basic Python and I definitively could 
have used a dictionary... but it worked.

 From that moment, Python became my script language. Whenever I need to 
write more than 2 lines in Bash, I use Python.

I learned the classes to play with some (rudimentary) artificial 
intelligence. I even took part in a contest where I learned 'lambda' and 
the generators. The only thing I haven't taken much care about is GUI in 
Python. For that, I learned C++...  ;-)

Any way, Python even helps me sometimes to write C++ since I use it to 
test my algorithms when it comes to data manipulation. I can feed my 
routines on the fly with whatever data I want to see how they react. So 
I use Python as a debugger before to even start writing things in C++. 
No need to compile or debug in Python. When something goes wrong: 
CTRL+C, correct and restart.

Python is fun because it's easy to write, to understand and to use.

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