On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 9:13 AM Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The only risk here is if your refactoring does something silly, such as
> reusing a variable which overrides assignment:
>
How would you propose to write this code without reusing a variable?
def frobnicate(data):
stuff = []
for datum in data:
f = process_the(data)
g = munge_result(f)
stuff.append(g)
return stuff
Under the proposal, we have no guarantee that each iteration through the
loop will give us a new `f` to work with. Maybe yes, maybe no. Without
looking at the source code in `process_the()` we have no way of knowing
whether `f` is being bound to a new object each time or some completely
different arbitrary action.
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