MonkeeSage wrote: > In Libs/site.py, lines 302-306: > > try: > for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES): > print self.__lines[i] > except IndexError: > break > > With my proposal, that could be written as: > > for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES): > if self.__lines.has_index(i): > print self.__lines[i] > else: > break > > Granted, in this particular case the amount of code is not reduced, but > (and I would hope you'd agree) the control flow is certainly easier to > follow.
so to "improve" a piece of code that's been optimized for the common case, you're adding an extra method call and a test to the inner loop? and this because you think Python programmers don't understand try- except statements ? I think we can all safely ignore you now. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
