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Python needs an actual default function (lemmy.ml)
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Also, do y'all call main() in the if block or do you just put the code you want to run in the if block?

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[โ€“] PolarKraken@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I would love that! I do think there are probably interesting underlying personality factors / preferences for a lot of this stuff as well.

I do think that many of Python's characteristics map to my own personality and I bet there's something to that. Things like syntax of course, but not strictly syntax, also things like "The Zen of Python", and the way its a "jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none". I also really kind of need the freedom and accompanying responsibility to break any "rules" on a whim (Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance), but I almost never do anything that uses it...

I could probably keep going lol. Feels like a "people looking like their pets" scenario, lmao

[โ€“] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Thank you for sharing your thoughts :)

Python will happily let you overwrite its own internals while running, for instance

Damn, that's cool and I did not even know. Pretty sure I would not do this in production code, but very glad very this possibility exists