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| From | Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: One liners |
| Date | 2013-12-06 19:07 -0500 |
| References | <CAGGBd_o1TS02cosi+q9YeN5rnWJxe5mU7xtCTuTMZGO0ntF5TA@mail.gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.3675.1386374876.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 12/6/13 6:54 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > 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. I agree with you that those trends would be bad. But I'm not sure how you are judging that "Python" is being dragged in that direction? It's a huge community. Sure some people are obsessed with fewer lines, and micro-optimizations, and other newb mistakes, but there are good people too! --Ned, ever the optimist.
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Re: One liners Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-12-06 19:07 -0500
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