On 9/21/05, Scott David Daniels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roel Schroeven wrote: > > ... > > Christophe schreef: > >> ... > >>And what about a function which computes the line length ? > > > > That would have been a better example indeed, since the *p1 trick > > doesn't work there. > > > > def euclidian_distance((x1, y1), (x2, y2)): > > return math.sqrt((x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2) > > > > That's a lot nicer, I think, than this: > > > > def euclidian_distance(p1, p2): > > return math.sqrt((p2[0] - p1[0])**2 + (p2[1] - p1[1])**2) > > But not massively nicer than: > > def euclidian_distance(p1, p2): > (x1, y1), (x2, y2) = p1, p2 > return math.sqrt((x2 - x1)**2 + (y2 - y1)**2) >
But the question is - why go to the effort to remove the (by your admission) slightly nicer version? Peace Bill Mill bill.mill at gmail.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
