On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:11:37 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: >> It's not something to be solved by the language, but it's often >> something to be solved by the program's design. Two lines of code that >> achieve the same goal should normally look the same. This is why >> Python's policy is "one obvious way to do something" rather than "spell >> it five different ways in the same file to make a nightmare for other >> people coming after you". Why should database queries be spelled >> "trans1.query()" in one place, and "trans2.query()" in another? > > Is that a trick question? They probably shouldn't. But it's a big leap > from that to "...and therefore `for` and `while` should introduce their > own scope".
No, it's not a trick question; I was responding to Ethan's suggestion as well as yours, and he was saying pretty much that. BruceA (maybe that'll reduce the confusion?) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
