On 17 avr, 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Yuck! No way!! If you *want* to make your code that hard to read, I'm > > sure you can find lots of ways to do so, even in Python, but don't > > expect Python to change to help you toward such a dubious goal. > > Well, my actual code doesn't look like that. Trust me, I like clean > code. > > > Seriously, examine your motivations for wanting such a syntax. Does it > > make the code more readable? (Absolutely not.) Does it make it more > > maintainable. (Certainly not -- consider it you needed to change > > CONSTANT2 to a different value some time in the future.) > > Yes, it makes it more readable. And yes, it does make it (a lot) more > maintainable. Mainly because I don't have those four variables, I have > about thirty. And I think I won't need to one or two of them, but > maybe all of them at once.
Out of sheer curiosity, why do you need thirty (hand-specified and dutifully commented) names to the same constant object if you know there will always be only one object? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
