[Tfug] Python

[cara]

It is not just python toolkits which can't keep up with the explosion of WS*
specs. It's pretty ugly. My boss should have listened to my warnings and
known more about the state of the technology. You know, typical developer
rant about useless managers ... blah blah

So ... not really python's fault (but, I'm guessing, the dynamic typing in
the language makes the specs harder to implement). If anyone wants to hear a
lecture about why SOAP sucks, I can do that.

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Chris Niswander <
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> wrote:

> cara wrote:
>
>  I remain bitter. My former boss forced me to use python ZSI for a Web
>> Service client. It was terrible.  Python's dynamic typing couldn't tell if
>> something was a string or an array. The code it generated made looking at
>> legacy perl scripts a joy.
>>
>>
> If you are writing real Python code *yourself*,
> it's easy to distinguish a string from a Python 'list',
> which is the usual Python equivalent of a Perl array.
> (You can distinguish a Python array too,
> but I'm guessing that's not what you meant.)
>
>    import types
>
>    if isinstance(somevalue, types.StringTypes):
>        # It's a string...
>    elif isinstance(somevalue, types.ListType):
>        # It's a list...
>    else:
>        # I did not expect this!
>
> But I'll interpret your complaint as a possible warning
> about Python ZSI, which I don't think is part of the normal
> Python language or standard libraries.
>
>
>
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