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| Subject | Re: Ifs and assignments |
| Date | Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:29:49 +0000 |
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On 03/01/2014 04:25, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote: >> Or turn it into a generator: >> That certainly makes your mainline code cleaner... > > Cleaner perhaps, but not clearer. Instead of seeing the original > function (say, a database retrieve-next call), you see a wrapper and > have to go dig to find out what it's actually doing. Unless it's some > kind of generic handler, like: > > def funcinator(func,*args): > while True: > var = func(*args) > if var: > yield var > else: > break > > while funcinator(cur.getnext): > .... > > But even that would be problematic until it got so thoroughly > understood that it's like enumerate() - which is itself still not > perfect. > > ChrisA > I find the above rather funcy :) -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence
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Re: Ifs and assignments Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-02 19:45 -0500
Re: Ifs and assignments Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-01-03 14:33 +1100
Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 14:49 +1100
Re: Ifs and assignments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-02 23:14 -0500
Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 15:25 +1100
Re: Ifs and assignments Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-03 04:29 +0000
Re: Ifs and assignments Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-03 15:46 +0000
Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 14:55 +1100
Re: Ifs and assignments Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-02 23:00 -0500
Re: Ifs and assignments Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-01-03 15:08 +1100
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