printing to stdout

[Joel Goldstick]

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 12:16 PM Richard Lucassen
<mailinglists at lucassen.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 10:11:08 -0400
> Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Well, apparently there were quite a lot of things that makes the
> > > code more readable I'd say. And even better. But it was indeed not
> > > very unPythony. OTOH, I'm not a programmer, otherwise I would have
> > > written this in C ;-)
> >
> > This strikes me as an odd conclusion.  Raspberry Pi places a strong
> > emphasis on python.  It certainly doesn't execute as fast as C can,
> > but it provides a conceptually higher level programming model.  There
> > is extremely good community support for python with Pi (a huge plus),
> > and the code is much more understandable.  It is faster to write code
> > with python, you can come back to it and understand it more readily at
> > some later time, as can others.  And it runs 'fast enough' .  So, no,
> > I don't think if you were a 'programmer' you would have used C to do
> > this project.  But others may be of a different persuation.
>
> You've got absolutely a point that Python seems to be largely supported
> for Rpi. But I'll tell you something else: I just started to use a
> Rpi ;-) I agree that python code is much more understandable than C.
>
> > You seemed to have snipped your question about zip function.  It takes
> > iterables (things like lists, tuples, dictionaries) as arguments and
> > pairs them together to form tuples.  Look it up.  Very useful.  As and
> > example, if you have list1 = (1,2,3), and list2 = (4,5,6,7) and zip
> > them you will get ((1,4), (2,5),(3,6)).  (It stops when the shortest
> > iterable is exhausted)
> >
> > Your allusion to pointers is misguided.  Python is not like C or
> > assembler.  You don't, and don't need to know where objects are
> > stored.  Names are assigned to reference data objects
>
> I'll have another look at it, I was just searching for a clear
> explanation, but the page I found was not clear enough for me. I'll
> have to take some time for it...

try python.org tutorial, and search for terms like names, or name
binding.  And also 'namespace'

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