Re: More on Python

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Justin Dearing <zippy1981@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Python definitely has some very strangely named libaries, but hey it was
named after Monty Python.

Further, I would say Python's third-party packages are no more
strangely named than any other popular language's third-party
packages. One of PHP's leading Web frameworks is called Cake.
JavaScript has Angular.

The tradition starts way back, anyway. sed, grep, awk? emacs? Most
names have a story behind them, but are weird-sounding until you know
them and get used to them.

That being said, some of its features like list and dictionary
comprehensions let you write elegant loops that are on par with the
succinctness of .NET LINQ. i.e {var: os.environ[var] for var in os.environ}
turns all your environment variables into a dictionary/

I get what you're trying to say, but you could have picked a better
example. os.environ is already a dictionary. The expression

{key: mydict[key] for key in mydict}

is equivalent to the expression

mydict

And people who don't already recognize and understand dictionary
comprehensions are probably going to be more mystified than impressed
by the notation without any context and explanation. ("You can create
a dictionary using a dictionary comprehension" isn't much of an
explanation.)

John Y.