On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Zero Piraeus <sche...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 October 2012 11:18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Zero Piraeus <sche...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> [... on return values and side effects ...] >> >> Side point: It's not that it's *bad* code or even bad style; > > It's a matter of taste, sure, but especially for a beginner, it's easy > to find yourself using a method for its return value and forgetting > that it actually does something to the object as well ... and then > getting bitten later. > >> it just isn't the way Python generally does things. > > When in Rome ... :-)
Of course, and I'm not disagreeing with the original point made. It's worth writing Pythonic code when writing Python code. It's just not the only way to write. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
