Comments on: What I Dislike About Python http://morgajel.net/2007/07/01/208/ Stemming the flow of evincible Ignorance. We must try to understand for the sake of understanding. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:01:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: paddy3118 http://morgajel.net/2007/07/01/208/#comment-6160 paddy3118 Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:59:11 +0000 http://morgajel.net/2007/07/01/208/#comment-6160 Indentation: The style guide says use 4 spaces. Never, ever mix tabs and spaces for indentation. Debugging: heres how to pretty-print pythons native data-structures: from pprint import pprint pprint() self: there are a wide range of feelings on this. I really learnt OO using Python so prefer it. Objects: Use only new-style objects! Super: use only new style classes. Mysterious fail: Probably how the application is written. python likes to raise exceptions when things fail that give useful tracebacks. The first public Alpha of Python 3k will be out in August this year. Here is Guido's blog on this: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549 Indentation: The style guide says use 4 spaces. Never, ever mix tabs and spaces for indentation.

Debugging: heres how to pretty-print pythons native data-structures:
from pprint import pprint
pprint()

self: there are a wide range of feelings on this. I really learnt OO using Python so prefer it.

Objects: Use only new-style objects!

Super: use only new style classes.

Mysterious fail: Probably how the application is written. python likes to raise exceptions when things fail that give useful tracebacks.

The first public Alpha of Python 3k will be out in August this year. Here is Guido’s blog on this: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=208549

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