On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:26 PM Elliott Dehnbostel <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> If I've done this incorrectly, please let me know so that I can
> improve/revise. I'm new to the Python community and quite enjoy the more
> functional features of Python 3, but have I have a peeve about it. I'd like
> to propose and discuss the following enhancement to Python 3:
>
> *Consider the following trivial for-loop:*
>
> chars = "abcaaabkjzhbjacvb"
> seek = {'a','b','c'}
> count = 0for a in chars:
> if a in seek:
> count += 1
>
> Gross. Twice nested for a simple count.
>
>
count = 0
for a in chars:
count = count + 1 if a in seek else count
Once nested -- if nested == gross, then this is not gross. (However, I
prefer the twice nested which I find clear and simple -- not gross.)
André Roberge
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