Python’s Valentines Day Gift to Clojure

[ericmoritz]

I have to say, after tinkering with Clojure, when I'm typing out a python dict or list I think, "So many damn commas..."

[atdt]

Try this:

>>> dict(user='root', password='secret') {'password': 'secret', 'user': 'root'} >>> "marry had a little lamb".split() ['marry', 'had', 'a', 'little', 'lamb']

[pashields]

Some (potential) context to this is that at Clojure Conj there was a discussion of the potential for clojure expressions to become a standard data serialization format. The idea is that clojure data is significantly more rich than something like JSON.

In fact, as I understand it, some of the changes to the reader in 1.4 are aimed at working on this goal. You can read a little about this at http://dev.clojure.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=950382

[csears]

Was it purely coincidence that this was posted the same day as PyClojure? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3589374 https://github.com/eigenhombre/PyClojure

[dustingetz]

why do people want to do this?

[overshard]

Same reason people use different programming languages in general, they just prefer/like/forced/are used to it.

If you like clojure and must program in python, have an idea of how to implement something in clojure but not in python then just use clojure now.

[zaphar]

It's a way to share data with a clojure application. And s-expressions are a pretty good format for data transfer so it's not a terrible idea to provide ways for people to use it as such.