Dennis Lee Bieber presented a code snippet with two consecutive statements that made me think, "I'd code this differently". So just for fun ... is Dennis's original statement or my "_alt" statement more idiomatically Pythonic? Are there even more Pythonic alternative codings?
mrkrs = [b for b in block if b > 127 or b in [ "\r", "\n", "\t" ] ] mrkrs_alt1 = filter(lambda b: b > 127 or b in [ "\r", "\n", "\t" ], block) mrkrs_alt2 = filter(lambda b: b > 127 or b in list("\r\n\t"), block) (Note: Dennis's statement converts a string into a list; mine does not.) --- binary = (float(len(mrkrs)) / len(block)) > 0.30 binary_alt = 1.0 * len(mrkrs) / len(block) > 0.30 -John E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.386) Database version: 5.12090 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list