On Wed, Mar 23, 2016, at 12:08, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > And doing it 'Pythonically' can lead to suggestions such as the > > following the other day: > > > > c, psource = psource[0], psource[1:] > > > > (where psource is a very long string), which even I could tell, from > > knowing what goes on behind the scenes, wasn't going to work well > > (duplicating the rest of the string roughly every other character). > > > > It would work perfectly. How would it duplicate the rest of the string > roughly every other character?
Er, I think he's suggesting that this would be in an inner loop (something like while psource: c, psource = psource[0], psource[1:]). What I'm not sure of is why he thinks this is pythonic. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
