"pythonic"

[Anand B Pillai]

'Guido's thesaurus' gives 4 different 
meanings for this.

pythonic

  It is a term used by programmers who have found
solace in the ultimate. It also means the following
generally used terms, though not accepted with grudge
by followers of other programming faiths.

not perl
__easy__ and __elegant__
weakref.ref("C")
pickle.dump("C++")
pickle.dump("Java")

Anand Pillai
 
Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message news:<mfuna.26072$LB6.616225 at news1.tin.it>...
> Afanasiy wrote:
> 
> > Too many times now I have seen the term "pythonic" used to vaguely
> > describe something which is never explicitly defined, as if it cannot be.
> > 
> > Now it seems I can just replace "pythonic" with "my idea of utopia".
> > 
> > I do not know if this ignorance, laziness, or a meme, but I would like
> > to know if there a real definition of "pythonic". Anyone?
> 
> If you want a thesaurus:
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/62/49/P1214900.html
> 
> """
> pythonic
> 
> ADJECTIVE:
> Of extraordinary size and power: behemoth, Brobdingnagian, Bunyanesque, 
> colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, giant, gigantesque, 
> gigantic, herculean, heroic, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, massy, 
> mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, 
> prodigious, stupendous, titanic, tremendous, vast. Informal : walloping. 
> Slang : whopping. See BIG. 
> 
> Roget?s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton 
> Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights 
> reserved.
> """
> 
> 
> If you prefer a dictionary:
> 
> http://www.bartleby.com/61/25/P0692500.html
> 
> """
> ADJECTIVE:
> 1. Of, relating to, or resembling a python. 2. Of or resembling an oracle; 
> prophetic. 3. Of extraordinary size and power. 
> 
>    
> The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. 
> Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton 
> Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
> """
> 
> 
> Of course, around here we tend to use a nuance of "Of, relating to,
> or resembling Python" rather than "a python", and while "extraordinary
> power" is surely sometimes part of the connotations, I don't think
> the specific connotations towards BIG SIZE, which the thesaurus points
> out so well, are normally implied in our discourse.
> 
> 
> Alex