Someone was thinking in ruby there.
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > >
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