Terry Reedy wrote: > On 1/31/2016 7:19 AM, c.bu...@posteo.jp wrote: >> I am not sure what the problem is here, so I don't really know how I >> should call the subject for that question. Please offer a better >> subject. >> >> The code below is a extrem simplified example of the original one. But >> it reproduce the problem very nice. Please focus on the variable >> `return_code`. >> >> There is a `list()` of numbers without the number `7` in. The code >> check if the number `7` is in and should tell that it is not in. But it >> does tell me that `7 is in`. ;) > > Python-list is not Stackoverflow. It is a text mailing list, not a web > page. Here, the backticks are not markup; they are just distracting > noise. Don't do this!
IBTD. I find it useful to mark up source code in plain text prose even if it is not rendered differently (you cannot know that; there are various user agents, and there could be one that does). I would have used typographical quotation marks (“…”) instead, but I think backticks are a good alternative in US-ASCII, better than straight quotation marks or apostrophes at least since those delimit strings in Python which can lead to ambiguities. (That is probably also why not only Stack Overflow, but *Markdown* uses them this way as Stack Overflow just uses a Markdown flavour: <http://stackoverflow.com/help/formatting>) >> #!/usr/bin/env python3 >> import sys >> >> def walkOn_ids(ids, handlerFunction, **handlerArgs): >> for one_id in ids: >> handlerFunction(one_id=one_id, **handlerArgs) >> print('after handler-call for id {}\t{}' >> .format(one_id, handlerArgs)) > > Ditto. Here, the initial 4 space indents are not markup. They just > makes it impossible to cut, paste, and run your code without extra work. That much is true, because *in Python* indentation means program structure; so the Python program above is syntactically invalid and should not have been posted this way. However, with a good editor the "extra work" is limited to one application of Shift+Tab, and the extra indentation does not hinder the understanding of the posted source code as much as you imply. -- PointedEars Twitter: @PointedEars2 Please do not cc me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
