[ale] Pyhon syntax

[Benjamin Scherrey]

for row in c.fetchone():
    print row

This will iterate through every call until c.fetchone() is empty and 
returns None or throws an exception. Python structures loops as 
iterations of lists, not too dissimilar from lisp except with a readable 
syntax. The result is that you do only have one exit from your loop in 
the vast majority of cases, you don't have seperate testing code from 
iteration code, and the semantics more closely match your logical 
intention. I'm a big C++ programmer but python never fails to astonish 
me and being both simple to learn while powerfully expressive at the 
same time. I think its fairly unique in that regard. Python is very 
object oriented as is C++ but also supports the functional paradigm 
which, in C++, requires more clumsy and sometimes brain warping syntax 
of predicate templates and function objects.

    Ben Scherrey


Christopher Fowler wrote:

>The Python fact seems to explain these differences.
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>>>>while True:
>>>>        
>>>>
>...   row = c.fetchone();
>...   if not row: break;
>...   print row
>
>
>This one works but goes against the idea that if you enter a loop there
>must only be one way out of that loop. 
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