In article <46681369$0$12126$3b214f66 at tunews.univie.ac.at>,
Mathias Panzenboeck <e0427417 at student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>Steve Howell schrieb:
>> --- "pinkfloydhomer at gmail.com"
>> <pinkfloydhomer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a resource somewhere on the net that can be
>>> used to quickly
>>> and effectively show Python's strengths to
>>> non-Python programmers?
>>> Small examples that will make them go "Wow, that
>>> _is_ neat"?
>>>
>>
>> 15 small programs here:
>>
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/SimplePrograms
>>
>
>IMHO a few python goodies are missing there.
>e.g. generator functions:
>
># generic fibonacci without upper bound:
>def fib():
> parent_rabbits, baby_rabbits = 1, 1
> while True:
> yield baby_rabbits
> parent_rabbits, baby_rabbits = baby_rabbits, parent_rabbits +
>baby_rabbits
>
>
># only calculate and print the first 100 fibonacci numbers:
>from itertools import islice
>
>for baby_rabbits in islice(fib(),100):
> print 'This generation has %d rabbits' % baby_rabbits
Good point.
This example intrigues me. When I saw the first couple of lines,
I expected
def fib():
generation, parent_rabbits, baby_rabbits = 1, 1, 1
while True:
yield generation, baby_rabbits
generation += 1
parent_rabbits, baby_rabbits = \
baby_rabbits, parent_rabbits + baby_rabbits
for pair in fib():
if pair[0] > 100:
break
print "Generation %d has %d (baby) rabbits." % pair
as more appealing to non-Pythoneers. I'm still suspicious about
how they're going to react to itertools.islice(). Now, though,
I've begun to question my own sense of style ...