Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 9:13 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >>> One less thing to be programmed, one less thing for the user to >>> remember. Just require pass any time you have an empty block, rather >>> than try to remember where it is required and were it is optional. >> >> Actually, the requirement of a dummy statement is a slight annoyance for >> the programmer. After deleting a statement, you must see if you have to >> put in a pass statement. And after adding a statement, you may feel the >> urge to remove the redundant pass statement. > > How often do you actually need empty statements, adding stuff, > removing stuff, like that? Possibly there's a code smell here. > > ChrisA
Yeah, all the time. try: return self.cache[key] except KeyError: pass lots... of... code... self.cache[key] = newval return newval -- Rob Gaddi, Highland Technology -- www.highlandtechnology.com Email address domain is currently out of order. See above to fix. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
