On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 04:20 am, John Gordon wrote: > In <560d78e2$0$1618$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com> Steven D'Aprano > <st...@pearwood.info> writes: > >> > I have to parse those damn brackets and then figure out the inverted >> > logic. Give me x < 0 or x > 10 any day of the week. When you're an >> > old, senile git like me, readability counts :-) > >> With the greatest of respect Mark, I don't believe that for a second. >> Your sig line, which you have used without fail for more years than I can >> remember includes the phrase "ask not what our language can do for you". >> If you can understand that, I don't believe that you cannot figure out >> how to > > Certainly we can understand it.
Unless every single one of you (the "we" you refer to) are called Mark, I don't believe I was talking to you :-P > But it takes ever-so-slightly more effort > to do so. Slightly more effort than what alternative? How would you communicate the idea of *not* asking for X without using the concept of "not"? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
