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Comment on print (“Hello, blog world!”) by thepythonista

thepythonista — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:30:28 +0000

Timmymaconald:

Thanks for your comment.

I’m working on a post on “screen scraping in Python,” which might just be up your alley. Is that the kind of thing you were referring to (stuff that isn’t usually covered in most tutorials)?

Also, if there’s a specific topic you’d like to see me cover, don’t hesitate to leave a comment suggesting it.

Comment on print (“Hello, blog world!”) by timmymacdonald

timmymacdonald — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:44:12 +0000

It’d be really great if you covered useful-things-that-don’t-really-get-covered-in-tutorials.
For example, I recently learned that a better way of doing this:
if foo == 1 or foo == 3 or foo == 5:
would be
if foo in [1, 3, 5]

Comment on About by Licensing « code.py

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Comment on It’s official: I’m a switcher. by ameo

ameo — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:50:56 +0000

sorry for bringing up an old post .
but I’m interested to know what have you ended with ?
still with FireFox , or opera ?

for the part that opera isn’t free . well it’s free just not open-source .[ and that what makes it restricted for any programmer to code anything to work with it .

as for me I’m an opera fan still use firefox or ie once a day

Comment on Why I won’t learn Perl (voluntarily) by thepythonista

thepythonista — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:37:20 +0000

Lee,

Thanks for your comment. In fact, it’s the first official comment on my blog.

I see I was a bit misinformed about Perl operators. Nonetheless, I think the main point about Perl being a large language still holds. Do you agree?

Comment on Why I won’t learn Perl (voluntarily) by Lee Aylward

Lee Aylward — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:00:58 +0000

Perl operators do not behave differently based on context, they enforce a context on variables. For example, + only adds two numbers together, and will always return a number. When used on an array, + will force the array into scalar context.

my @a = (1,2,3);
my @b = (4,5,6);
@a + @b; # returns 6

Python, on the other hand, does have operators that behave differently based on context. In Python + can return a list, number, or string based on the context.

a = (1,2,3)
b = (4,5,6)
a + b # returns (1,2,3,4,5,6)

I don’t normally defend perl, but your critique of it’s operators seems to describe python more than perl.