Hi, On 2010-09-25 15:54, Yingjie Lan wrote: > The first one is simpler (4 chars v.s. 9 chars).
One thing is whether a certain form is shorter, another thing to take into account is how often you need the functionality. > I thought it was also intuitive because if you multiply > a vector by -1, you should get a vector > in the reversed direction. But, intuitiveness depends > on who you are, what you do, etc.... Sure ... in math, multiplying a vector by -1 gives a vector with all its elements negated: -1 * [1, 2, 3] -> [-1, -2, -3] :-) Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list