On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 6:06 AM Anders Hovmöller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 17 Oct 2019, at 20:37, Chris Angelico <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 5:25 AM Anders Hovmöller <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> No. The reason I don't know is because this is a hypothetical example. In > >> real code I would "know" BUT BE WRONG because the variable names would be > >> outright lying. > >> > >> / Anders > > > > So if you had 'separator' and 'width', would the variable names be > > outright lying, or would it then be reasonable to multiply a separator > > character by a width (eg 80) to create a line? > > Eh. No. What? Are you really being sincere? > > In any case this would be fine: > > line = separator.fill(80) >
Okay, so clearly we have quite different ideas about what's acceptable. That's fine. You're allowed to use a method, but since the language DOES support multiplication of string by repeat count, I'll quite happily continue to use the operator. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UNCXUJKAVZUD64Q3ERB2MP5CXP4Y4IVB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
