"Diez B. Roggisch" <de...@nospam.web.de> writes: > excessblk = None > if total > P.BASE: > excessblk = ... > > You don't lose any vertical space,
I don't see vertical space as such a scarce resource; we don't have an imminent newline shortage, to my knowledge. I value it far lower than, say, local readability. > and it's much more readable IMHO. On the basis of local readability, then, I agree that a multi-line conditional expression is far less quickly comprehensible than a normal multi-line ‘if’ statement. Assigning the default value of ‘None’ first (if that's the default) is also good style IMO. -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “Wuh, I think | `\ so, Brain, but wouldn't anything lose its flavor on the bedpost | _o__) overnight?” —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
