Python Newbie

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Feb 21 18:48:40 EST 2013


On 21/02/2013 23:34, piterrr.dolinski at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for this. Regarding ambiguity, you will never find me write ambiguous code. I don't sabotage my own work. But the reality is that in addition to writing my own code, I have to maintain existing. I find it incredibly confusing then I see a statement along the lines of "if not something" - have to study the code in detail to see what it is testing.
>
> I could show more examples of what I find confusing in existing code, but I don't intent to troll. I'm just trying to understand the language as it is. I will see how it goes.
>
> Pete
>

Perhaps look at code in the standard library to get a feel for things? 
This should help you overcome OCD, i.e. Obsessive C Disorder :)

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence




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