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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax?

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On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:49 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 30, 6:14 am, Ma Xiaojun <damage3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What interest me is a one liner:
>>> print '\n'.join(['\t'.join(['%d*%d=%d' % (j,i,i*j) for i in
>>> range(1,10)]) for j in range(1,10)])
>>
>> Ha,Ha! The join method is one of the (for me) ugly features of python.
>> You can sweep it under the carpet with a one-line join function and
>> then write clean and pretty code:
>>
>> #joinwith
>> def joinw(l,sep): return sep.join(l)
>
> I don't object to changing the join method (one of the more
> shoe-horned string methods) back into a function, but to my eyes
> you've got the arguments backward.  It should be:
>
> def join(sep, iterable): return sep.join(iterable)

Trouble is, it makes some sense either way. I often put the larger
argument first - for instance, I would write 123412341324*5 rather
than the other way around - and in this instance, it hardly seems as
clear-cut as you imply. But the function can't be written to take them
in either order, because strings are iterable too. (And functions that
take args either way around aren't better than those that make a
decision.)

ChrisA

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Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ma Xiaojun <damage3025@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 09:14 +0800
  Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-29 19:49 -0700
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:36 -0600
      Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 11:47 -0700
      Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-05-30 15:01 -0700
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 04:44 +1000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 12:51 -0600
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-05-30 20:38 +0100
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 07:28 +1000
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-31 09:43 -0600
    Re: How clean/elegant is Python's syntax? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-01 04:52 +1000

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