Illuminating Python

[Donald 'Paddy' McCarthy]

EdH wrote:
> Brilliant idea !
>

And like a lot of good ideas, it's already being done in essence in the 
cookbook at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Python/Cookbook/

- Long may they reign!

Paddy.

> On 19 May 2003 15:22:34 -0700, paddy3118 at netscape.net (Paddy McCarthy)
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>As a counter to a thread that just asked for an obfuscated Python
>>contest, I looked up the antonyms and would like to propose that
>>Pythonistas should rather engage in an 'Illuminating Python' contest.
>>
>>The Idea being to submit working examples of Python code that
>>illuminate a concept, algorithm, idea, or Python programming itself,
>>to other programmers, not neccessarily Python programmers.
>>
>>The result should be healthy debate on style, clarity, Occams razor
>>etc and should gather together examples that can be used as a showcase
>>for Python.
>>
>>(Or I could just get on with writing 'my killer app' :-)
>>
>>Cheers, Pad.
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