"Dustan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Repeat after me: > > > > "Not everything has to be a one-liner." > > Not everything has to be a one-liner. But readability helps.
Indeed. Complex one-liners are rarely as readable as a well-named function call, implemented with several explicit readable lines in one place, and then re-used as many times as necessary. -- \ "Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a | `\ finite world is either a madman or an economist." -- Kenneth | _o__) Boulding | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list