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An Interview With Guido van Rossum

Posted by timothy on from the what-does-he-know-about-python dept.

An anonymous reader submits "The folks over at artima.com have finished posting a 6 part interview with Guido Van Rossum, Python's creator and Benevolent Dictator for Life. The interview covers topics ranging from Python's origins and design goals to increased productivity to runtime typing." (We linked to this series of interviews before as well.)

6 of 18 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Mr Rossum by costas · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, AFAIK, 2.3 (or maybe 2.2) has finally taken this issue away. EOL conventions donot matter for source code any more.

  2. Re:Mr Rossum by Scarblac · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why on earth make whitespace vital to the compiler? For business reasons I have to edit my programs in Windows but run them on Linux. Editing out all those ^M's is a big pain.

    That has nothing to do with significant whitespace - it only occurs at the end of lines, not at the beginning.

    Most Linux distros have tools named 'dos2unix' and 'unix2dos' that can do the conversion for you.

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  3. Re:Mr Rossum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative
    Editing out all those ^M's is a big pain.

    Yeah, typing

    perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' filename
    is a real chore
  4. Re:Mr Rossum by an_mo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Alternatively, you can use a decent text editor such as TextPad which lets you save your files in unix format, not to mentions other useful features for coders.

  5. Re:Mr Rossum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Huh? I consider myself an experienced Pythom programmer, and I've never heard of programs being stored in XML.

    He was joking, ultrabot. Time to tweak your humor subroutines?

  6. Re:Mr Rossum by KewlPC · · Score: 3, Informative

    dos2unix is your friend