Should we still be learning this?
Max
rabkin at mweb[DOT]co[DOT]za
Sat Feb 18 07:38:51 EST 2006
On monday I start a semester course in Python (the alternative was
Java). I was looking through the course outline and noticed the following:
1) UserDict is used. This is deprecated, right?
2) There is no mention of list comprehensions, but map and filter are
taught early and then revisited later. I don't think this is good: list
comprehensions are, IMO, one of Python's great features, Psyco prefers
them, they're more pythonic, and map and filter seem to be going out the
window for Python 3000.
What do you think?
--Max
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