On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:33 PM, Mario Figueiredo <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 10:39:04 +1100, Ben Finney > <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > >>Jamie Willis <jw14896.2...@my.bristol.ac.uk> writes: >> >>> This could be written as: >>> >>> hello = "hello world " >>> hello .= strip() >> >>?1, “.=” is visually too similar to “=”. > > can't be much worse than > > hello = "hello world ", > > I think the dot next to the equal sign makes it very distinctive. The > equal sign is something we are so visually used to that any small > deviation gets immediately recognized by our brain. I may be wrong on > this assumption...
It depends somewhat on context. In the variable-width font that I'm reading my email in, the dot looks like a single pixel and doesn't create much visual spacing either. It would be very easy to miss. In a terminal window with Courier New on the other hand, it does look distinctive enough to be noticeable. We should keep in mind though that our code isn't always going to be read in Courier New. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
