One liners

Date	2013-12-06 15:54 -0800
Subject	One liners
From	Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.3674.1386374070.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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Does anyone else feel like Python is being dragged too far in the direction
of long, complex, multiline one-liners?  Or avoiding temporary variables
with descriptive names?  Or using regex's for everything under the sun?

What happened to using classes?  What happened to the beautiful emphasis on
readability?  What happened to debuggability (which is always harder than
writing things in the first place)?  And what happened to string methods?

I'm pleased to see Python getting more popular, but it feels like a lot of
newcomers are trying their best to turn Python into Perl or something,
culturally speaking.

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One liners Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-06 15:54 -0800
  Re: One liners Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-07 02:07 +0000
    Re: One liners Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2013-12-06 19:20 -0800
      Re: One liners Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-12-06 22:53 -0500
      Re: One liners Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-10 03:36 +0000
    Re: One liners Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-12-09 13:49 +0000
    Re: One liners Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 00:59 +1100

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