*weekly = [sum(daily[j:j+7]) for j in range(0, len(daily), 7)]* While I apprecia... | Hacker News

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		_pius on June 22, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Someday we will all program in Python weekly = [sum(daily[j:j+7]) for j in range(0, len(daily), 7)] While I appreciate the general sentiment that high-level languages will take over the world, there is very little that's new in this article and I am not impressed by the showpiece Python code from the article. For loops are the future?

fcr on June 22, 2009 [–]

Well I guess the list comprehension and list slicing features in the above example are more interesting than the for loop.

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