Bob Greschke wrote: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PTY wrote: > >> Which is better? > >> > >> lst = [1,2,3,4,5] > >> > >> while lst: > >> lst.pop() > >> > >> OR > >> > >> while len(lst) > 0: > >> lst.pop() > > > > A dozen posts, but nobody has posted the right > > answer yet, so I will :-) > > > > It doesn't matter -- use whichever you prefer (*) > > This is an angels on the head of a pin issue. > > > > (*) -- If your code is part of an existing body of > > code that uses one or the other style consistently, > > then you should do the same. > > > > I'd go even one step further. Turn it into English (or your favorite > non-computer language): > > 1. While list, pop. > > 2. While the length of the list is greater than 0, pop. > > Which one makes more sense? Guess which one I like. CPU cycles be damned. > :) > > Bob
It looks like there are two crowds, terse and verbose. I thought terse is perl style and verbose is python style. BTW, lst = [] was not what I was interested in :-) I was asking whether it was better style to use len() or not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
