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Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict?

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On 2016-03-27 14:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > So intrigued by this question I tried the following
> > def fnc( n ):
> >      print "fnc called with parameter '%d'" % n
> >      return n
> > 
> > for i in range(0,5):
> >      if i%2 == 0:
> >          fnc
> >          next
> >      print i
> > 
> > and got the same result as the OP  
> 
> In this case, the two lines "fnc" and "next" simply look up the
> function names, but without actually calling them. They're not
> quite "no-ops", since they can fail and raise NameError if the name
> doesn't exist, but otherwise they might as well be no-ops.

Which is actually useful.  I've got some 2.4 code that reads

  try:
    any
  except NameError:
    def any(...):
      ...

(with a similar block for all() )

I don't want to call any() or all(), I simply want to test whether
they exist.

-tkc

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Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? John Pote <johnhpote@o2.co.uk> - 2016-03-26 23:30 +0000
  Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-27 00:36 +0000
  Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-27 14:28 +1100
    Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2016-03-27 15:32 -0500
      Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-03-27 21:49 +0100
        Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-28 07:59 +1100
        Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-28 12:24 +1100
  Re: How to make Python interpreter a little more strict? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-03-28 00:26 +0100

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