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| From | Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Python for philosophers |
| Date | 2013-05-12 13:26 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <av89dcFbgncU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <mailman.1566.1368302603.3114.python-list@python.org> |
Citizen Kant wrote: > I roughly came to the idea that Python could be > considered as an *economic mirror for data*, one that mainly *mirrors* > the data the programmer types on its black surface, not exactly as the > programmer originally typed it, but expressed in the most economic way > possible. At best, this would be true only for a very small subset of things that you can enter into the interactive interpreter. Even confining yourself to arithmetic expressions, there are problems. Consider: >>> 12**34 4922235242952026704037113243122008064L The input is 6 characters long, and the output is 37 characters long. Is that more "economical"? -- Greg
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Python for philosophers Citizen Kant <citizenkant@gmail.com> - 2013-05-11 22:03 +0200 Re: Python for philosophers Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2013-05-12 13:26 +1200 Re: Python for philosophers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-13 02:46 +0000 Re: Python for philosophers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 20:51 -0700
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