On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 00:17 +, Alan Gauld wrote:
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> And in my tutorial I deliberately don't teach many of the "standard"
> Python idioms because I'm trying to teach programming rather than
> Python. So if python has an insanely great way to do stuff but virtually
> no other language has i
On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 13:36 +, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
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> I agree entirely, but what you've overlooked is that my examples are
> carefully targeted at a particular part of a tutorial-based class.
> We're talking about iteration so this is quite early in the course. At
> this stage I want my st
On 09/02/14 13:36, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
We're talking about iteration so this is quite early in the course. At
this stage I want my students to understand that closing a file is an
explicit action that needs to occur. Later in the course I will teach
exception handling and explain that the abov
On 9 February 2014 13:28, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:41 +, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> [...]
>> f = open('myfile.txt')
>> for line in f:
>> print(line.upper())
>> f.close()
>
> I suggest we even see this as not good code due to the possibility of
> I/O exceptions:
>
>
On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 10:41 +, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
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> f = open('myfile.txt')
> for line in f:
> print(line.upper())
> f.close()
I suggest we even see this as not good code due to the possibility of
I/O exceptions:
with open('myfile.txt') as f:
for line in f:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 02:18:54PM -0500, Keith Winston wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alan Gauld
> wrote:
> > It has reached the point that I'm back to looking for a new teaching
> > language. In Python 3 the decision has clearly been made to focus on
> > supporting Python's role as
On 19/01/14 19:18, Keith Winston wrote:
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
It has reached the point that I'm back to looking for a new teaching
language. ...
But what else is there? that's the problem :-(
Hi Alan, since this is off-topic from it's original thread, but I
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> It has reached the point that I'm back to looking for a new teaching
> language. In Python 3 the decision has clearly been made to focus on
> supporting Python's role as a professional software engineering language
> at the expense of being a s
