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Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming?

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2013-08-01 17:52 -0700
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Subject Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming?
From Sam Whitehead <demon.exh@gmail.com>

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I find myself doing this a lot with libraries whose documentation encourages an understanding based on intuition, rather than one based on formal concepts. When doing more 'pure' stuff with mostly the standard library, not so much. 

Most imperative languages let their users get kind of loose with data design, but I don't feel like Python is especially bad in this regard. Mostly I feel like it depends on how well the programmer understands the software they're working with. And that sense, Python tries to help by encouraging readability.

In a sense, you could see almost all computer programming as "poke and hope", though. The variation lies in the size of the poke and the uncertainty of the hope.

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Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 10:57 -0700
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-08-01 18:08 +0000
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 19:30 +0100
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-08-01 19:58 +0000
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Sam Whitehead <demon.exh@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 17:52 -0700
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Vito De Tullio <vito.detullio@gmail.com> - 2013-08-02 05:34 +0200
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Wayne Werner <wayne@waynewerner.com> - 2013-08-03 07:49 -0500
  Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 10:30 -0700
    Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-08-03 18:39 +0100
    Re: Does Python 'enable' poke and hope programming? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2013-08-03 11:31 -0700

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