On Dec 30, 11:26 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm with you on this one; IMHO it's one of the relatively few language > design missteps of Python, favoring the rare case as the default > instead of the common one.
George, you pointed this out this link in a different thread http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/521877 how would you rewrite the code below if you could not use mutable default arguments (global variables not accepted)? Maybe there is a way, but I can't think of it as of now. --------------------------------------- def blocks(s, start, end): def classify(c, ingroup=[0]): klass = c==start and 2 or c==end and 3 or ingroup[0] ingroup[0] = klass==1 or klass==2 return klass return [tuple(g) for k, g in groupby(s, classify) if k == 1] print blocks('the {quick} brown {fox} jumped', start='{', end='}') -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
