From: Marcelo <barberomarcelo@...>
Date: 2006-07-13T06:20:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why Ruby over Python?

I don't know what you mean "simply". Here goes the code:

a = []
a += [1, 2, 3]
# if you would append the list instead of three numbers,
# it would be a.append([1, 2, 3])
a.append({"me": "i think", "you": "you think"})

for i in a:
    print i

That's all.

Marcelo


bitdoger2@yahoo.com wrote:
> newbie asks: is it true that python does NOT support containers simply
> like ruby does?
> ie.
> a=[]<<  an array container
> a<<[0,1,2]
> a<<{"me"=>"i think","you"=>"you think"}
> and then use .each iterater to process this container....
> howachen@gmail.com wrote:
> > Besides ROR, can you give me a reason why perfer ruby instead of
> > python?
> >
> > seems to many users, they are very similar in nature...
> >
> > such as
> >
> > 1. non C or Java style syntax
> > 2. focus on codes readability, not like Perl
> > 3. ..