On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Since the list items exist only to be counted, the actual item used makes no > difference. You could use any value at all, or even a different value each > time: > > len([random.random() for line in lines if not line.strip()]) > > What is your reason for the choice of True as the tally marker? It doesn't > clarify your intent, or make it more obvious that you're counting the > number of non-empty lines.
Personally, I'd use the original value. When you're counting something, it's common to count that thing, rather than some stand-in. len([line for line in lines if not line.strip()]) But that's no better than anything else. The only significance is that it feels more like counting a filtered portion of the list. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
