Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python

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Date	2015-01-22 06:06 +1100
Subject	Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 5:20 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 21-1-2015 18:59, Steve Hayes wrote:
>
>> 3. When I started to look at it, I found that strings could be any length and
>> were not limited to swomething arbitrary, like 256 characters.
>
> Even more fun is that Python's primitive integer type (longs for older Python versions)
> has no arbitrary limitation either.
>
> That amazed me at the time I discovered python :)

I hadn't worked with length-limited strings in basically forever
(technically BASIC has a length limit, but I never ran into it; and I
never did much with Pascal), but you're right, arbitrary-precision
integers would have impressed me a lot more if I hadn't first known
REXX. So... is there a way to show that off efficiently? Normally, any
calculation that goes beyond 2**32 has already gone way beyond most
humans' ability to hold the numbers in their heads.

ChrisA

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How to "wow" someone new to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-17 02:03 +1100
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-01-16 17:20 +0200
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-16 09:16 -0800
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2015-01-19 16:19 +1000
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-01-21 07:15 -0800
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2015-01-21 19:59 +0200
    Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-01-21 19:20 +0100
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 06:06 +1100
        Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python André Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 11:20 -0800
        Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Irmen de Jong <irmen.NOSPAM@xs4all.nl> - 2015-01-22 00:46 +0100
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Matthew Ruffalo <mmr15@case.edu> - 2015-01-21 16:20 -0500
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 08:26 +1100
        Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu> - 2015-01-21 16:44 -0500
          Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Alan Bawden <alan@scooby-doo.csail.mit.edu> - 2015-01-21 16:52 -0500
            Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-01-21 14:35 -0800
            Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-22 15:51 +1100
          Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 23:13 +0100
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Matthew Ruffalo <mmr15@case.edu> - 2015-01-21 16:46 -0500
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 09:22 +1100
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python André Roberge <andre.roberge@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 10:34 -0800
  Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-21 19:05 +0000
    Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-22 15:39 +1100
      Re: How to "wow" someone new to Python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-01-23 00:09 +0000

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