On 2013-06-08 07:04, Carlos Nepomuceno wrote: > alpha, beta = (1 if some_calculation(params) else 0, 1 if > other_calculation(params) else 0)
This one sets them to absolute values, rather than the incrementing functionality in question: > > alpha += temp_a > > beta += temp_b The actual code in question does the initialization outside a loop: alphas_updated = betas_updated = 0 for thing in bunch_of_things: a, b = process(thing) alphas_updated += a betas_updated += b and it just bugs me as being a little warty for having temp variables when Python does things like tuple-unpacking so elegantly. That said, as mentioned in a contemporaneous reply to Jason, I haven't found anything better that is still readable. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list