Python Newbie

[Jean-Michel Pichavant]

----- Original Message -----
> 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 don't know how to respond to that. I cannot see where "if not something" gets complicated.

Would you understand "if not bool(something)" ? Because this is basically how it works. This is the closest thing to C 'casts'. Saying that, trying to translate a language into one another is most of the time a bad idea.

raining = isItRaining(today)

if (raining) :
  takeMyUmbrella()


Some psychopath will write 
if (raining == True)

but these are lost to mankind.

Stop using i,j,x,var,idx,count and you'll be just fine writing your if statements.

> 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

From this thread I can only tell that your brain is completely wired for your C# style and will reject any new concept that digress from C#.
If you stay that way, you won't be able to learn any new language, considering Python is one of the easiest to learn.

JM




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