Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > > >>Yes. A large part of learning a language is discovering the many idioms >>that have already been established for doing certain things. These are a >>kind of shorthand, established by long convention, that allow one to >>avoid the "learning-by-use" curve. > > > it's not obvious that the OP has found the pydiomatic way to solve > his problem, though, given that most of this thread have been spent > on playing with exec, and that Robert Kern's question from the be- > ginning of this thread has still not been answered: > > "Again, why unpack them into separate variables when they are *already* > in the form that you want to use them?" > Fair enough. I was trying to advocate the use of the suggested idioms, but some people seem to insist on going their own way even when it leads to a collision wiht a bricj wall.
You can lead an idiot to idioms, but you can't make him think ;-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
