> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Beni Cherniavsky > > I think teaching students to actively detest code that with huge redudant > repetitive piles of redudancy repeated all over is more important than > teaching them any single guideline.
<Snip> > Rule of thumb: use tuples where you typically change all members together. > Use mutable objects (lists/dicts/objects with attrs) where you frequently > change individual members. The tuple/list distinction is a recurring question on python-list - people trying to understand in what way the 2 structures are not redundant. This comes up repeatedly ;) I find your formulation more satisfying than anything I've come a cross before. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
