[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [...] > >>>Sorry, but I kinda agree with Boris here. >> >>On what ? > > > On the argument that you are (implicitly?) disagreeing with him
it's getting messy - too much level of indirection !-) > on, > obviously. That the OP problem is not definitely the default values > question. Ok, I do agree that it's only *one* part of the problem - the other (implied) being "what other possible solutions". > As you say: > > >>>>If the OP has other reasons to want to use an accumulator based solution >>>>- which we don't know - then the possibility to use a default value is >>>>important. > > > My emphasis is on "we don't know". At least we do agree on something !-) > >>>Not that I am anybody here, >>>really. >> >>Err... Are you you at least ?-) >> > > > I am. Great. > Thanks for your concern:) !-) > (snip) >>>I don't think there is actually a FAQ >>>saying you must use the accumulator solution. >> >>Did I say so ? The FAQ I mention is about default values evaluation, and >>it's the problem the OP was facing. Please re-read my post more carefully. >> > > > Actually, I have read your post right first time. And I do know you > didn't say that (a FAQ for accumulators). I raised it just in case. > What I don't agree with is that it is not the problem the OP was > facing. The discussion was: is the real problem the default values > problem, which he already got a solution for. Or was the real problem > the list returning recursion problem, for which he (or subsequent > google searchers, who are more likely to come to this thread after > searching for "Recursive function returning a list") may benefit from a > generator approach. agreed. (snip) > Thanks for the function, though I regard it as kind of trivial for the > level of discussion that we are having now. The problem solved by the > accumulator is _not_ the building of a list recursively. It is doing so > efficiently. Which is definitely not done by creating multiple > temporary lists just to add them. I am sure you know the theory. More > of relevance is that the generator based solution has also the same > efficiency, so they are both better than the trivial solution. > You have a point though. Your function is a solution. Just I don't > regard it as the preferred solution for the problem as I see it. Nor do I. >YMMV. It doesn't > To recap, the OP (and subsequent google searchers, if they pass by) has > now the preferred solution according to you. Please not that I didn't meant to present it as "the prefered solution". -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list