On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 2013 19:28:29 +0100, Fábio Santos wrote: > >> I think it is more readable. When doing more complicated statements I >> use != instead, but when it's a single test I prefer not … == >> >> It's a personal thing. It may also have to do with the fact that I >> didn't know python had != when I was a novice. >> On 13 May 2013 19:08, "Ned Batchelder" <n...@nedbatchelder.com> wrote: >> > > I would then still write it as not (x == y) to make it clear to myself & > avoid any possible confusion although I think that X != Y is much > cleaner. > 2 lines from the zen stand out here:- > > Explicit is better than implicit. > in the face of ambiguity refuse the temptation to guess. >
And here I was, thinking I was being pythonic. I hope other people using my code will be able to understand it well, not just myself, so using the most common idioms should be the best way to go. -- Fábio Santos -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
