[CentralOH] Javaesque to Pythonic

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 11:51:18 -0500 (EST), R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com> wrote:

> Python (3.2 or 
> later) port (seemingly mechanically generated similar to what 
> IbPy did with its Jaca 2 Python 'translator) ... 

That's good opportunity to repeat a goodie from the scribbles.

Raymond Hettinger has a good presentation about 
making some Python code
that has a Javaesque style
(perhaps also mechanically generated)
to be Pythonic.

On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:50:35 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> wp:P versus NP problem
> "P versus NP problem" really means "Pythonic versus non-Pythonic code problem"
>     Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code
>     http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2015/beyond-pep-8-best-practices-for-beautiful-inte.html
>     There is a good section where he converts a Javaesque API to be Pythonic.
>     Sweet! 20:00-40:20
>         context manager (__enter__, __exit__) to handle start up and tear down
>         sequence class (__len__, __getitem__) to allow normal iteration
>         @property syntactic sugah to convert attributes to function calls
> 
>         but where are the files?
>             p_vs_np_2.py?
>             p_vs_np_4.py?
>             misc1.py?

That presentation is one of the things that led me to 
realize how Python is a high level language.