/prog/ - Python is a toy language.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 3:23

Users of curly bracket programming languages, such as C or Java, sometimes expect or wish Python to follow a block-delimiter convention. Brace-delimited block syntax has been repeatedly requested, and consistently rejected by core developers. The Python interpreter contains an easter egg that summarizes its developers' feelings on this issue. The code from __future__ import braces raises the exception SyntaxError: not a chance. The __future__ module is normally used to provide features from future versions of Python.

Another hidden message, The Zen of Python (a summary of Python philosophy), is displayed when trying to import this.

The message Hello world... is printed when the import statement import __hello__ is used.

An antigravity module was added to Python 2.7 and 3.0. Importing it opens a web browser to an xkcd comic that portrays a humorous fictional use for such a module, intended to demonstrate the ease with which Python modules enable additional functionality.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 3:43

I bet OP uses Ruby

Name: OP 2011-02-06 5:07

>>2
I use a paper and pen.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 5:51

Though OP provides us with some humorous information about Python,
I fail to see the relevance of this information in the context
of /prog/.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 7:00

The Zen of Python is a LIE¹

^₁http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1260691765

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 7:02

>>1
An antigravity module was added to Python 2.7 and 3.0.
What's that shit.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 7:48

>>6
It's called "humour". Even a Java programmer should at least know that such a thing exists, even if she is not familiar with it personally.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 8:02

>>7
I'd hardly call the stuff what Randall churns out as "humour".

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 8:03

>>7
But XKCD isn't funny.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 9:06

>>7
Even a Java programmer should at least know that such a thing exists
With the difference that Java doesn't have an org.xkcd.Comics.Antigravity package.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 10:23

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Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 10:45

>>8,9,10
The humour of the situation is precisely that an unfunny joke was included in the language as if it was a funny joke worth inclusion. "-- Why did the chicken cross the road? -- To get to the other side."

It is an example of the bizarre, absurdist humour that Monty Python is famous for. Which, entirely coincidentally, is what the language is named after.

Also, I want to add that these three comments of yours reminded me of http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 10:47

>>12
Hello, Generic Pythonista/XKCD Bigot.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 11:04

>>13
You forgot to mention that xkcd is unfunny, are you not afraid that people might think that you are into mainstream?

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 11:05

>>14
I'm not enough a faggot to care.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 11:16

>>15
You forgot to do it again, you should have said "I'm not enough a faggot to care, but of course xkcd is unfunny".

Look at >>8,9,10 - they are doing it right.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 11:17

>>16
I'm >>10.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 11:17

>>17
Also, optimise your quotes: >>8-10

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 12:21

Go back to bad, rand(all). Nobody cares about your stupid comic.

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 13:37

>>19
Saying it here is not enough, to really prove that you don't care you go to xkcd forums and tell that to the real Randall Munroe!

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 13:51

blag

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 14:23

>>7
I'd expect experienced Java programmers to be fully qualified when it comes to humor:
http://www.microsoft.com/education/competencies/humor.mspx

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-06 14:34

>>22
That's humor, not humour!

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-07 0:50

>>23
It's not my fault you can't spell "humor" right!

Name: Anonymous 2011-02-07 7:58

What is rand(all), is it Perl 6?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 6:32

bampu

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 7:36

>>24
English is from England; what is defined there is canonically ``correct''.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 11:34

>>6
it's called bloat

and unlike regular bloat, it's useless bloat since it does nothing useful, and nobody even uses it once they read about it

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 13:24

I think software should strive to be more toy-like.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 15:08

I've got my blag on

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 18:33

http://xkcd.com/353/

this isn't even remotely funny... especially considering python sucks in comparison to racket.

makes sense for guido to capitalize on it though.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 21:24

>>31
no, nothing sucks in comparison to racket.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 22:52

<--- check those badass dubz, losers

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-19 23:38

xkcd is actually funnier than /prog/. That's how bad /prog/ has become. :(

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-20 0:11

>>34
/prog/ was never actually funny. We're just a collection of supercillious code monkeys.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-20 0:24

>>35
I thereby name you Pythonoob-san.

Name: sure is /b/ in here 2011-09-20 6:44

>>8
>>the stuff what

Name: VIPPER 2011-09-20 6:49

>>35
Then why are you here?

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-20 6:56

>>38
back to /b/

Name: VIPPER 2011-09-20 7:02

>>39
Ladies first.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-20 7:03

>>35
I enjoy behaving supercillious in a technical oriented anonymous discussion board.

Name: Anonymous 2013-01-18 22:31

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Python is a toy language.

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