list vs tuple

[Mikkel Rasmussen]

deadmeat <root@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
news:_lGx6.1144$p5.4395 at news1.rivrw1.nsw.optushome.com.au...
> > done lots of Python training lately?  in my experience, *everyone*
> > can understand Python's object model in about five minutes.
>
> Do the first 5 minutes of the tutorial mention this? No.. so the newcomer
to
> Python will go off thinking one thing, and not know any better until s/he
> gets to the relevant section.
>
> > because you're smarter than everyone else
>
> I don't ever claim such.. what I am saying is that one learns a certain
> method early on, namely that a = b copies b to a.  This is not so in
Python,
> and the tutorial breezes by this little detail as if one really could
reset
> thy brain.
>
> It's all nice and easy once Python is learned, but who reads the entire
> documentation before typing a single character?  Nobody.  With an
> interpreter in one hand, and the documentation in another, the programmer
is
> encouraged to read some, then play with what is learned.  Only after the
> programmer has experiemented is he then told what he just 'learned' about
> Python is wrong, and here's the real story.
>
>
>

Then the confusion is caused by the documentation, not the language itself
(the standard Python tutorial it not exactly well-written).

I was also also a bit confused by code like your example in the beginning -
but I got better. Now I'm mildly confused by Pascal instead :-)


Mikkel Rasmussen