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Re: More on Python

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But I happened to have a short-term need for a simple text to pdf convertor and googled for that - that resulted in me finding http://code.activestate.com/recipes/532908-text-to-pdf-converter-rewrite/ which in this and its original version had received many “thank you’d” and other references. It was a short enough piece of code and with the “thanks” I figured it was probably a reasonably good example - bad assumption apparently.

Thanks for the link.

The thing about your assumption is that the standards are different
depending on whether you are looking for "code to get stuff done" or
"code for learning". Some code meets both of those goals quite well
(including some recipes in the ActiveState cookbook). That particular
one is what I'd call "shippable" but not one that I'd put into a
textbook.

John Y.

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