Python

I have a special place in my heart for python. One of the first programming languages I learned, and I still use it for a bunch of small-but-more-complex-than-a-shell-script programs.

Python has many issues, of course. The very free-form, whitespace-based syntax makes refactoring very difficult. The dynamic type system makes it much harder for me to reason about a program - to the point where all programs I write use type annotations to mitigate the issue. The syntax of the language makes it hard to write an rspec-like testing framework (it’s possible, but you have to use lots of with boilerplate).

Inline Execution from the Command Line

You can call python with the -c argument to execute an inline script in the command line, e.g.

python -c 'print("hello")'

Last updated: 2021-11-14 12:47:40 -0800