C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

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MSDN Blog Postings » C# 3.0 as Python with Braces — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:14:14 GMT

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re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Michael Foord — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:56 GMT

Nice post. Of course it shows off the benefits of IronPython better than the benefits of C#...

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Paddy3118 — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:02:12 GMT

Unfhortunately there is not much idiomatic Python in the original - probably because of the type of example chosen.

- Paddy

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

hafizan — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:58:19 GMT

I have never seen C# code. But I think it become like java which more powerfull. The python are more easier to understand but the only part def is function is very confusing.

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Uriel Katz — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:19:20 GMT

sorry but this doesn`t show anything you are writting SWF code in both languages,of course it looks the same.

if you tried to write something which do dynamic things like adding methods to a object and then calling them you just couldn`t do that in C#

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

JJ — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:14:17 GMT

You could have also used object initializers when creating some of the objects in C#:

var n = new NotifyIcon {

Icon = new Icon(@"e:\foo\icon.ico"),

Text = "Watching Path" };

Any idea whether IronPython has the same facility?

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

John — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:57:00 GMT

Hmm, I don't know python to save my life so excuse me if this is a really dumb question but how does the code know you are done defining thread_proc()?

I understand the dialog will be modal when shown. Does that somehow mean you are done defining a method?

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

mgb — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:22:06 GMT

Whitespace is significant in python

the function def ends when the code is no longer indented.

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Max — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:41:37 GMT

Python knows you are done because the indentation level changes. all the code belonging to thread_proc() is indented one tab and more.

So in this line:

t = Thread(ThreadStart(thread_proc))

you don't have any indentation and therefore you are at the same level as the function definition and therefore its body must be over

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Michael Foord — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:07:57 GMT

"You could have also used object initializers when creating some of the objects in C#:

...

Any idea whether IronPython has the same facility?"

Yes, and without the superfluous declarations. :-)

n = NotifyIcon(

Icon = new Icon("e:\foo\icon.ico"),

Text = "Watching Path")

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

John — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:44:22 GMT

You're kidding? Formatting matters in python? So now besides syntax and logic defects you need to worry formatting bugs?

Almost sounds like an esoteric language to me...

re: C# 3.0 as Python with Braces

Le Dave — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:18:32 GMT

Of course formatting matters in Python is a good thing.

Consider this C# code :

if ( a < 0)

foo();

if (a > 0)

bar();

else

bazr();

Do you think this will not lead you to bugs, if you never indent properly ?

Do you always put your lovely braces exactly at the place you want... Are not they a source of bugs themselves ?