On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/06/2013 04:54 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > Does anyone else feel like Python is being dragged too far in the > direction > > of long, complex, multiline one-liners? Or avoiding temporary variables > > with descriptive names? Or using regex's for everything under the sun? > > > > What happened to using classes? What happened to the beautiful emphasis > on > > readability? What happened to debuggability (which is always harder than > > writing things in the first place)? And what happened to string methods? > > > > I'm pleased to see Python getting more popular, but it feels like a lot > of > > newcomers are trying their best to turn Python into Perl or something, > > culturally speaking. > > I have not seen any evidence that this trend of yours is widespread. > The Python code I come across seems pretty normal to me. Expressive and > readable. Haven't seen any attempt to turn Python into Perl or that > sort of thing. And I don't see that culture expressed on the list. > Maybe I'm just blind... I'm thinking mostly of stackoverflow, but here's an example I ran into (a lot of) on a job: somevar = some_complicated_thing(somevar) if some_other_complicated_thing(somevar) else somevar Would it really be so bad to just use an if statement? Why are we assigning somevar to itself? This sort of thing was strewn across 3 or 4 physical lines at a time.
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