dmitrey wrote: > 1st still is shorter by 1 char; considering majority of people use > space after comma & number of parameters can be big it yileds > foo bar baz bar2 bar3 bar4 > vs > foo(bar, baz, bar2, bar3, bar4)
I think most readers already agree on the ambiguities part. Now, for the length of the code... I agree that in you example the first syntax yields a full /five/ spaces less than the second syntax. However, it ignores the fact that if you are creating functions with that many arguments, you are probably doing something wrong. Can't those arguments be provided as a list? Let's see what is shorter: foo bar baz bar2 bar3 bar4 or foo *bars Not to mention that it might (or might not) be a good idea to wrap the function in some kind of class where you can specify a whole bunch of attributes, so that you do not have to call a function with that many arguments to start with. Regards, Bart -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
