Python Gotchas

October 5, 2009

DESCRIPITION / EXPLAINATION: ( >> Gotchas <<) pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com by stephenferg

Note that a gotcha isn’t necessarily a problem in the language itself. Rather, it is a situation in which there is a mismatch between the programmer’s expections of how the language will work, and the way the language actually does work. Often, the source of a gotcha lies not in the language, but in the programmer. Part of what creates a programmer’s expectations is his own personal background.