[ Apologies for the off-topicness, but Python can't be *totally* off topic, not on this mailinglist, can it ? :) ]
On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 11:29:26AM -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
Note that Python is the easiest langauge in the world. Did you read the tutorial yet ? If you're already familiar with programming in some other language, it's easy to get into, and will teach you everything about the language itself. Most of the rest you'll want to learn eventually is library docs, but you can browse those on an as-needed basis.
Well, you can code python like C, or you can code it like python, just like perl 5. If it's coded like C, which much of this package is, I can follow it.
Actually, Mailman is written in pretty standard Python. Pipermail is probably an example of the word's worst Python code, but the rest is pretty simple :) It might reflect a bit of C style because Barry does a fair bit of C coding, but Barry also used to do a lot of Java coding (or pretend to, anyway, on JPython :) so I'm not sure if that's true. Python isn't like Perl, you can't write it in *that* many different ways :)
Usually just in one, even. Even pipermail is fairly standard python code, if you refactor some of the functions and fix the whitespace usage.
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