On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 1:46 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, August 7, 2016 at 1:54:51 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Seen in the office IRC channel:
>>
>>
>> (13:23:07) fred: near_limit = []
>> (13:23:07) fred: near_limit.append(1)
>> (13:23:07) fred: near_limit = len(near_limit)
>> (13:23:09) fred: WTF
>
> Sure, this code smells of nauseous superfluity, but what
> comes after these three lines? Is this _all_ there is? Or
> are these three lines merely the initial setup stage for a
> complex looping algorithm? Cherry picking a few lines from a
> script and then judging them "unworthy", would not be a
> fair. We should never attempt to purposely mimic the abysmal
> state of justice in the USA.
I agree. There's nothing wrong with that code. I routinely have
constructs like this:
def register(self, obj):
self.files.append(obj)
return None
return None # just in case
return None
def process(self, stuff):
files = self.files
files = [] # to save memory
files = self.files
for file in files:
file.process(stuff)
return 1
It's perfectly good code, and Fred was flat out wrong to say "WTF" about this.
ChrisA
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