[Tutor] Comparative code questions: Python vs. Rebol

[Tim Johnson]

Hello All:
    I'm writing a column where I am comparing certain simple
coding tasks in different programming languages. This time,
I doing 'rebol' and 'python'.

My first example is swapping values with a temporary variable
(and I lifted this right out of "The Python Cookbook")
  # Python
  a,b,c = c,b,a
  
  ; Rebol
  set [a b c] reduce [c b a]

Now here is a more complex example:
Dynamically compose a series of functions such that
# python 
  print H3("This an html header of level 3")
  >>> "<H3>This is an html header of level 3</H3>"

; Rebol
  print H3 "This an html header of level 3"
  >> gives the same and so on from level 1 through
     level 6
In rebol, it works this way:
repeat count 6[ 
    do rejoin[ "H" count ": sub[val][val: reduce val ml[H" count "[(val)]]]" ] 
    ]
; Here rebol composes a series of 6 strings and evaluates them as source
; code for functions, which are then installed in memory.
; Works well for short functions which may have small variances
;  in a general code template

Is it possible to do this in python? If so, an example would
be appreciated.

This will be published at http://www.frozen-north-linuxonline.com/
under the label "Code Corner".

And frankly it's good way for me to ease back into Python... I've
got to do some work with it.

Thanks (and I hope I'm being clear here...)
-- 
Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>
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