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Re: Ifs and assignments

From Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject Re: Ifs and assignments
Date 2014-01-03 04:29 +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 :)

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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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