Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes: > If you want to go strictly by the book, I would say he ought to be > using a set since his collection of numbers has no meaningful order > nor does it make sense to list any item twice.
Yes, a set would be best for this specific situation. > I don't think it's very important, however, to stick to rules like > that for objects that don't live for more than a single line of code. It's important to the extent that it's important to express one's *meaning*. Program code should be written primarily as a means of communicating with other programmers, and only incidentally for the computer to execute. -- \ “Laurie got offended that I used the word ‘puke’. But to me, | `\ that's what her dinner tasted like.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
