On Sun, Mar 26, 2006, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > [Alex] >> >> And I'm on the fence regarding the specific issue of PySet_Next. >> >> So, having carefully staked out a position smack in the middle, I >> cheerfully now expect to be fired upon from both sides!-) > > Okay, here's the first cheap shot ;-) Which of the following pieces of > code is preferable? The first loops with the iterator protocol and > the second loops with the _next protocol.
Speaking as a person who does relatively little C programming, I don't see much difference between them. The first example is more Pythonic -- for Python. I agree with Barry that it's not much of a virtue for C code. However, I do have one nitpick with both your examples; I don't know whether this is an artifact of them being examples: > hash ^= h * 3644798167; Seems to me that magic numbers like this need to be made constants and explained with a comment. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles." --John Cleese anticipates Usenet _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
