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On 04/30/2015 10:19 PM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>> I must also confess to being highly impressed, it's a breath of
>> fresh air having an apprentice Pythonista who is looking at doing
>> things the Pythonic way :)
> 
> When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
> 
> Besides: there probably is a reason for the Pythonic way.

You maybe surprised, then, by how many people that stop by this list
wanting to program Java, C# or C++ in Python and get frustrated and
upset when the list tries to steer them in a Pythonic direction.  Most
of them leave upset and never return to the list or Python.