[Tutor] creating files with python and a thanks

[alan.gauld@bt.com]

> > The python idiom is the latter although I do see a lot of people
> > starting to use it as a default - which is a bad thing IMHO...

> OOC, why do you think so?  I'm not questioning you, I just 
> don't want to develop bad habits.

Anything which reduces the readability of code is a bad thing.

One of the reasons I prefer Python to Perl and Tcl is it doesn't 
insist on lots of strange hieroglyphs($,@,% etc) on its symbols. 
Putting an 'r'(or should that be r'r'?!)  in front of every 
string is just making things that little bit less natural.

Alan g.