Talk:Python (programming language)/Archive 7: Difference between revisions

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The point wasn't that it was awesome python code, rather that it mocks a code example from Ruby's website with their silly perl-esq sigils and magical behavior.

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# Python knows what you mean, even if you want to do math on an entire set

cities = set(("""London

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print ( "I still need to visit the following cities: "

+ ", ".join(cities - visited) )

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</source>

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="ruby">

# Ruby knows what you

# mean, even if you

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"following cities:",

cities - visited

</syntaxhighlight>

</source>

Granted the python example would look nicer with the set literal syntax a la 3.0.

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Boolean operators and Boolean built-in types always return one of the Boolean values True and False ''except'' for the operators "<code>or</code>" and "<code>and</code>" which return one of their operands (from left to right, the first operand that determines the Boolean value of the expression).<ref>{{cite web| title=Boolean operations | url=http://docs.python.org/ref/Booleans.html}}</ref>

<sourcesyntaxhighlight lang="python">

>>> class spam: pass # spam is assigned a class object.

...

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<class __main__.spam at 0x01292660>

>>>

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