Re: Writing Python Code More Concisely Than Perl!?

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 21:02:22 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:46:24 +0100, Brian Morrison wrote:
 

No idea if this is credible or not:
 
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/python/latest-update-on-python-4/
 
but it popped up right at the top of my search results. 

 
You get points for using a search instead of AI. ;)

I see the AI results at the top of my search output, sometimes they're
right, sometimes they're not.

 
Seems a reasonable bunch of points. Of course Guido is no longer
BDFL, so I don’t think his opinions automatically count for more than
anybody else’s. But he still gets the respect, of course.

Indeed, and python has been a fairly big success on the whole.

I still struggle with syntax that needs indents to be there rather than
simply being a reading aid.

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