On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 10:31 pm, Rustom Mody wrote: > What makes you think I wanted to print those numbers??
The fact that you called print. > Maybe I wanted a list of 10 None-s?? The idiomatic Python way of doing it would be: [None]*10 The beginner's way of doing it would be: [None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None] The premature optimizer would do the same as the beginner. Somebody who thinks of list comprehensions as the only hammer in their toolbox would write: [None for i in range(10)] Confused Lisp programmers would write: list(map(lambda ignore_me: None, range(10))) But the idea that somebody might call print(i), and put up with its HIGHLY VISIBLE side-effects, just for the return result of None, instead of just writing None, is too implausible to take seriously. If I saw such code, I'd immediately submit it to The Daily WTF. -- Steven “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
