On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:57:35 -0800, Steve Howell wrote: > The names you give to the intermediate results here are terse--"tuples" > and "filtered"--so your code reads nicely. > > In a more real world example, the intermediate results would be > something like this: > > departments > departments_in_new_york > departments_in_new_york_not_on_bonus_cycle > employees_in_departments_in_new_york_not_on_bonus_cycle > names_of_employee_in_departments_in_new_york_not_on_bonus_cycle
Those last two could be written more concisely as: serfs_in_new_york names_of_serfs_in_new_york_as_if_we_cared But seriously... if you have a variable called "departments_in_new_york", presumably you also have variables called "departments_in_washington", "departments_in_los_angeles", "departments_in_houston", "departments_in_walla_walla", and so forth. If so, this is a good sign that you are doing it wrong and you need to rethink your algorithm. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
