On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:54:07 -0800, Eelco wrote: > Context dependence is not something to be avoided at all costs, but all > else being equal, less is certainly more. The general concept of > grouping thing together which parenthesis is an extremely pervasive one > in programming, and thus deserves its own set of context-dependent > rules. Packing and unpacking collections is far, far more rare,
Not in Python, where it is a very common idiom. > and thus > a form that requires you to write more but remember less is certainly > relatively favorable. Not in Python, where iteration is a fundamental idiom and packing/ unpacking is a basic syntax construct precisely because the designer of the language expects it to be common and encourages its use. There are built-in functions designed to be used with unpacking operations, e.g. enumerate and zip: for i, obj in enumerate(sequence): ... for a, b in zip(obj, range(100)): ... -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
