On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 7:47 AM Peter J. Holzer <hjp-pyt...@hjp.at> wrote:
> On 2020-03-19 14:24:35 +0000, Rhodri James wrote: > > On 19/03/2020 13:00, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > > > It's more compact, especially, if "d" isn't a one-character variable, > > > but an expression: > > > > > > fname, lname = > db[people].employee.object.get(pk=1234)[['first_name', 'last_name']] > > > > > > vs. > > > > > > fname = db[people].employee.object.get(pk=1234)['first_name'] > > > lname = db[people].employee.object.get(pk=1234)['last_name'] > > > > I have to say I don't think that's more compact at all. It's too wide > > to be compact. > > But 83 characters is still more compact than 121 characters. > It's smaller (in a way), but is it more clear? Compare to regular expressions: they're small, but they tend to be a mess. Remember that the complexity of a programming a language varies with the square of its number of features. Complex languages are not good languages. A good language has a small core and extensibility via libraries. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
