Your beloved python features

Hello,

I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
"hidden features of Python".

I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
use python?".

For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
popular and beloved python features.

So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.

Regards
Julian

My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
or when I return to code to modify it.

Julian <mailings@julianmoritz.de> writes:
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".

It's terrible, but all the alternatives are even worse. ;-)

Julian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".
>
> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
> popular and beloved python features.
>
> So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
> whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.
>
> Regards
> Julian

http://www1.american.edu/academic.de...ose_python.pdf

Iterators, and in particular, generators.
A killer feature.

Terry Jan Reedy

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote in message
news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-list@python.org...
> Iterators, and in particular, generators.
> A killer feature.
>
> Terry Jan Reedy
>

Neither unique to Python.

And then're the other killer "features" superfluous ":"s and rigid
formatting!

On Feb 4, 3:03*pm, Julian <maili...@julianmoritz.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".
>
> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
> popular and beloved python features.
>
> So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
> whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.
>
> Regards
> Julian

I love list comprehensions, but am currently falling for 'with'.

~Sean

On 4 Feb, 23:03, Julian <maili...@julianmoritz.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
> "hidden features of Python".
>
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".
>
> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
> popular and beloved python features.
>
> So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
> whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.
>
> Regards
> Julian

* simplicity
* documentation - some criticise it, I love it.
* duck typing
* batteries included

And lots more!

--
Arnaud

Julian <mailings@julianmoritz.de> writes:
> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
> use python?".

- Very easy to learn, at least for the not-too-hairy fragment
- some features like generators are advanced compared with some
other languages, yet still easy to use
- pleasant-to-use syntax (yes, the indentation stuff that everyone
is freaked out by at first) and well-evolved library makes coding
very productive and enjoyable
- reasonably good documentation
- large and friendly user/developer community

On Feb 5, 2:45*am, "Bruce C. Baker" <b...@undisclosedlocation.net>
wrote:

> "Terry Reedy" <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote in message
>
> news:mailman.1929.1265328905.28905.python-list@python.org...
>
> > Iterators, and in particular, generators.
> > A killer feature.
>
> > Terry Jan Reedy

+1, iterators/generators is among Python's best features for me too.

> Neither unique to Python.

Can you name a single feature that is unique to a language, Python or
other ? Every idea that's any good has been copied over, usually more
than once.

> And then're the other killer "features" superfluous ":"s and rigid
> formatting!

I'll give the benefit of doubt and assume you're joking rather than
trolling.

George

On 02/04/10 23:03, Julian wrote:
<cut>

> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
> popular and beloved python features.

That it is ego-orientated programming ;-)
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pyt...il/007419.html

--
mph

Ethan Furman wrote:
> Julian wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
>> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
>> "hidden features of Python".
>>
>> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
>> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
>> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
>> use python?".
>>
>> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
>> popular and beloved python features.
>>
>> So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
>> whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.
>>
>> Regards
>> Julian
>
> http://www1.american.edu/academic.de...ose_python.pdf
>
"Choose metaclasses if you don’t value your sanity."

That remembers me the time when it took me 4 hours to write a ten lines
metaclass )

JM

>> I've asked this question at stackoverflow a few weeks ago, and to make
>> it clear: this should NOT be a copy of the stackoverflow-thread
>> "hidden features of Python".
>>
>> I want to design a poster for an open source conference, the local
>> usergroup will have a table there, and in the past years there were
>> some people that came to the python-table just to ask "why should I
>> use python?".
>>
>> For those guys would be a poster quite cool which describes the most
>> popular and beloved python features.
>>
>> So, may you help me please? If there's a similar thread/blogpost/
>> whatever, please give it to me, google couldn't.
>>
>> Regards
>> Julian
>
> http://www1.american.edu/academic.de...ose_python.pdf

This is effin hilarious! Should be either linked or stored on python.org

Cheers,
Daniel


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Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown

I love intuitive type recognition.

no need to 'DIM everything AS Integer' etc.!

"R Fritz" <rfritz333@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My favorite feature is its readability. It's as near to pseudo-code
> as any language we have, and that's valuable in open source projects
> or when I return to code to modify it.

That might be true when used to code actual algorithms using basic features.

But a lot of Pythonisms would appear mysterious to someone who doesn't know
the language (for example, what does :: mean in an array index).

Or perhaps pseudo-code is much more advanced these days...

--
bartc