I am feeling guilty already. C-ly looks comfortable. I would rather it=20 was spelled with a lower case "c". Nasty weather returning tomorrow, perhaps I can try a few simple tasks=20 in Python. On 4/13/2014 9:04 PM, veegee wrote: > For example, people coming from other languages tend to bring their > other-language mentality when writing Python code:I > http://skien.cc/blog/2014/04/09/unpythonic-python/ > > It'll take a while to pick out all the reasons why those examples are > unpythonic. Take a look at the C-ly (?) code; you don't need to > declare/initialize variables like that in a function. Variables in Python > are function-scoped. You just*use* them straight away, and they are > visible throughout the function. Of course, it's not an error to do so. B= ut > it's not the *right *way to do it. --=20 John Ferrell W8CCW "Kindness is the language the blind can see and the deaf can hear." - Mark Twain --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .