When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
and I missed ":" often. :)
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v4vijayakumar wrote:
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
Even the standard editor Idle tries to guess the intendation, so this
was never a problem for me. Though these days I use PyDev a lot.
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
A lot of editors help you with these 'unnecessary' things by
auto-completion might be worth looking into one.
>
and I missed ":" often. :)
Still do after 5 years of python abuse :-)
--
mph
On May 8, 2:06*am, v4vijayakumar <vijayakumar.subbu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
You must type inconsistently.
I never had such a problem even when I used to use Notepad.
>
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
Who uses methods?
>
and I missed ":" often. :)
Try using something like Seed7, where you have to use "then" with
"if" and "do" with "while" and "end" in every block. Maybe you'll
come to appreciate significant whitespace and ":".
Mensanator wrote:
>2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
Who uses methods?
Is this a joke ?
What are the alternatives ?
>
>and I missed ":" often. :)
Try using something like Seed7, where you have to use "then" with
"if" and "do" with "while" and "end" in every block. Maybe you'll
come to appreciate significant whitespace and ":".
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an equivalent of
':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
And surely, it should be easy to parse by the compiler.
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca
On May 8, 11:47�pm, Yves Dorfsman <y...@zioup.comwrote:
Mensanator wrote:
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
Who uses methods?
Is this a joke ?
Yes.
What are the alternatives ?
and I missed ":" often. :)
Try using something like Seed7, where you have to use "then" with
"if" and "do" with "while" and "end" in every block. Maybe you'll
come to appreciate significant whitespace and ":".
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an equivalent of
� ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
� �do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
And surely, it should be easy to parse by the compiler.
If they were to chane it, I wouldn't complain.
I just think it doesn't deserve complaints when
compared to other systems.
>
Yves.http://www.SollerS.ca
En Fri, 09 May 2008 01:47:49 -0300, Yves Dorfsman <yv**@zioup.com>
escribió:
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an
equivalent of ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
And surely, it should be easy to parse by the compiler.
Yes, it could be done, there are no technical reasons to always force to
use ":". But AFAIK the main reasons to keep ":" are internal consistency
(an inner block always starts with ":"; incidentally, that's easier to
handle for editors) and legibility (the ":" stands for itself and has a
meaning)
--
Gabriel Genellina
v4vijayakumar a écrit :
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
Then you have a problem with your code editor - not with Python.
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
Nope. Python requires that function used as instance methods take the
instance as first argument (and that functions used as classmethods take
the class as first argument). It's the method object's duty to actually
pass the appropriate object to the function. The rational is that it
allows to built methods above two more generic constructs (namely:
functions and the descriptor protocol) instead of having to special-case
them.
and I missed ":" often. :)
Your editor should not indent the next line then. Either you failed to
correctly configure your editor, or it's broken.
Yves Dorfsman a écrit :
Mensanator wrote:
>>2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
Who uses methods?
Is this a joke ?
Very probably.
What are the alternatives ?
Err... functions ?-)
Yves Dorfsman a écrit :
(snip)
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an
equivalent of ':',
Technically, yes. OTHO, the ':' helps editors doing proper indentation.
On May 9, 1:48 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalidwrote:
v4vijayakumar a écrit :
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
Then you have a problem with your code editor - not with Python.
Editors can not be wrong. :)
I think there should be some way to say python compiler, to consider
tab and two blank spaces equal, when tab space = 2.
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
>I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an
equivalent of ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
Yes, it could be done, there are no technical reasons to always force to
use ":". But AFAIK the main reasons to keep ":" are internal consistency
(an inner block always starts with ":"; incidentally, that's easier to
handle for editors) and legibility (the ":" stands for itself and has a
meaning)
Legibility ?
But one could make the same argument for curly brackets, and we seem to be
doing fine without them !
I have become so used to the power of indenting in python that I keep
forgetting the colon, and this is getting worse as I do more python, not
better. Maybe I'll write myself a "pre-compiler" that add the colons where
the compiler needs them :-)
Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:08 +0000, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
I see the point of the OP. Couldn't the new-line be used as an
equivalent of ':', for example, do you find this difficult to read:
if a == 3
do_something()
if a == 3: do_something()
Yes, it could be done, there are no technical reasons to always force to
use ":". But AFAIK the main reasons to keep ":" are internal consistency
(an inner block always starts with ":"; incidentally, that's easier to
handle for editors) and legibility (the ":" stands for itself and has a
meaning)
Legibility ?
But one could make the same argument for curly brackets, and we seem to be
doing fine without them !
I have become so used to the power of indenting in python that I keep
forgetting the colon, and this is getting worse as I do more python, not
better. Maybe I'll write myself a "pre-compiler" that add the colons where
the compiler needs them :-)
Yves.
http://www.SollerS.ca
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Have you considered the following:
if (x == 4 and (y in
[len(x) for x in
foo if x**2 23]
or y < 2) and z.strip().endswith('z') and
remove_first(w))
attach_list(q, r)
reject(x)
A colon on the correct line would help readability quite a bit.
Yeah, I know I made it pretty ugly to begin with, and there are ways to
improve it without the colon, but still, just because it could be
removed doesn't necessarily mean it should.
Cheers,
Cliff
En Fri, 09 May 2008 10:37:30 -0300, v4vijayakumar <vi******************@gmail.comescribió:
On May 9, 1:48 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalidwrote:
>v4vijayakumar a écrit :
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
Then you have a problem with your code editor - not with Python.
Editors can not be wrong. :)
I think there should be some way to say python compiler, to consider
tab and two blank spaces equal, when tab space = 2.
It already considers tab = 8 spaces, and when invoked with -tt it rejects mixed tabs+spaces. (I would like Python rejected *any* tab used for indenting...)
There is a tool 'reindent.py' -somewhere on your Python install-, and an indentation checker 'tabnanny.py' (this one in the standard library).
--
Gabriel Genellina
Gabriel Genellina wrote:
En Fri, 09 May 2008 10:37:30 -0300, v4vijayakumar <vi******************@gmail.comescribió:
>On May 9, 1:48 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalidwrote:
>>v4vijayakumar a écrit :
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
Then you have a problem with your code editor - not with Python.
Editors can not be wrong. :)
I think there should be some way to say python compiler, to consider
tab and two blank spaces equal, when tab space = 2.
It already considers tab = 8 spaces, and when invoked with -tt it rejects mixed tabs+spaces. (I would like Python rejected *any* tab used for indenting...)
There is a tool 'reindent.py' -somewhere on your Python install-, and an indentation checker 'tabnanny.py' (this one in the standard library).
That's one of the reasons why I like Python :-)
Still too many people don't know that you must set a TAB to 8 in
your editor. Anything other than 8 for a TAB will, at some point,
confuse somebody.
Don't confuse indentation with TAB setting.
Many editors are not helpfull either. Pydev, for example, has a setting
for TAB, but it is used for indentation. It is just luck (I think) that
pydev has an option to say that you only want spaces. (Take a look at
the main preferences of Pydev.)
So far, I have seen only one editor that understands the difference between
TABs and indentation, and that is Emacs.
--
Kees
Kees Bakker wrote:
So far, I have seen only one editor that understands the difference between
TABs and indentation, and that is Emacs.
Oh, well... in .vimrc:
autocmd FileType python set tabstop=8
autocmd FileType python set softtabstop=4
autocmd FileType python set expandtab
Kees Bakker <sp**@altium.nlwrote:
>
So far, I have seen only one editor that understands the difference between
TABs and indentation, and that is Emacs.
Most vi clones (and the original vi) do too! :-)
E.g. in the clone I use (vile) there are independent settings for
tabstop and shiftwidth. In addition you can tell the editor to change
tabs to spaces (or not) as you wish.
--
Chris Green
On May 8, 2:06*pm, v4vijayakumar <vijayakumar.subbu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
When I started coding in python, these two things surprised me.
1. my code is inconsistently indented with the combination of tabs and
spaces. Even lines looked intended, but it is not.
The problem is in tab not Python, there is no convention on how many
spaces should tab be treated, python (by default) assumes a tab to be
equal to 8 spaces, but not everyone thinks the same, some code editor
might consider it as 4 spaces or 2 spaces. In most python-oriented
code editor, a tab might be automatically replaced with four spaces.
2. python requires to pass "self" to all instance methods
No, python doesn't requires self to be passed to all instance methods,
python passes the "current instance" of a class to the first argument
of a function inside the class, this first argument can be named
anything, although it is traditionally named as self. In other
programming languages, this current instance is implicitly passed (Me
in VB, this in C/C++).
and I missed ":" often. :)
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