In article <16ea4848-db0c-489a-968c-ca40700f5...@m5g2000prh.googlegroups.com>, gc <gc1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I frequently need to initialize several variables to the same > value, as I'm sure many do. Sometimes the value is a constant, often > zero; sometimes it's more particular, such as defaultdict(list). I use > dict() below. Keep in mind that when you do: a = dict() b = dict() you are NOT initializing a and b to the same value. You are initializing each of them to a different empty dictionary, which is very different from a = b = dict() I suspect you knew that, but it's worth mentioning. > # Option 1 (separate lines) > # Verbose and annoying, particularly when the varnames are long and of > irregular length > > a = dict() > b = dict() > c = dict() > d = dict() > e = dict() This seems the best to me. Simple, straight-forward, easy to understand. What could be bad? It may not be elegant, but if I could have a nickel for every hour I've wasted trying to understand elegant code, I'd be a rich man. I can understand the above code in an instant, even at 2 AM juiced up on sugar and caffeine. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
