Teaching Programming

[Stefan Behnel]

superpollo, 04.05.2010 13:23:
> Stefan Behnel ha scritto:
>> the main reason why this problem doesn't hurt much in Python
>> is that Python is a dynamic language that can get you extremely far
>> without generating code. It's simply not necessary in most cases, so
>> people don't run into problems with it.
>
> Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45)
> [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
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>  >>> A,B=2,3
>  >>> if A>B:
> ... print A+B
> ... else:
> ... print A**B-B**2
> ...
> -1
>  >>> A,B=3,2
>  >>> if A>B:
> ... print A+B
> ... else:
> ... print A**B-B**2
> ...
> 5
>
> tell me please: how can generate the same output (depending on A and B)
> without control structure? i mean in a natural "pythonic" way...

The question is: why do you have to generate the above code in the first 
place? Isn't a function enough that does the above?

Stefan