On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:15:31PM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote: > > I am sorry if you cannot appreciate such elegance > and can only spit on it as 'orwellian'. > I admire the elegance of your examples and your explanation. I will keep a copy of it in my Beazley, for I am afraid I have to read it again. As for orwellian, I must admit that I was quite happy when I thought of using that word, but that it was not my luckiest thought.
But I have to persist in my malice. In the following snippet it is not at all clear to the naive programmer (me) that the else refers to an iterator_is_exhausted condition, whatever logical explanation you may offer. . for each_item in item_list: . do_something() . else: . do_else() My temporary solution will be to accompany this else with an appropriate comment: # exhausted e -- Egbert Bouwman - Keizersgracht 197 II - 1016 DS Amsterdam - 020 6257991 ======================================================================== -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
