I did python.. awhile back, it was like ruby in some ways and in some ways not. So I picked one, I went full blown into Ruby. Recently I’ve seen lots of job postings for Python so I figured I’d give it another go :)
Slicing >>> message = "hello world" >>> message[0:5] 'hello' >>> message[6:] 'world'Then in ruby
2.4.0 :001 > message = "hello world" => "hello world" 2.4.0 :002 > message[0..5] => "hello " 2.4.0 :003 > message[6..-1] => "world" Eveything in ruby is an object and objects have methods. String has a method slice, aliased to [] (cool!) and the .. is a range. You could use a comma but there is so way to tell it to use the end unless using a range. If you look at the params for the slice method it is a fixnum or fixnum, fixnum or a range. It can also take a string (if you use the method name) but that is a strange use.2.4.0 :005 > message => "hello world" 2.4.0 :006 > message.slice("ello") => "ello" 2.4.0 :007 > message => "hello world" 2.4.0 :008 > message.slice!("ello") => "ello" 2.4.0 :009 > message => "h world"
Unless you use slice! (bang) does it actually change/do anything remotely interesting. Probably I would find a more clear way to do it than using slice with a string.
Well this is just one aspect of the differences and I am not sure if there are differences in the versions of python too.