Antoon Pardon wrote: > So if I have a call with an expression that takes more than > one line, I should assign the expression to a variable and > use the variable in the call?
Yes, that's sometimes a good practice and can clarify the call. > But wait if I do that, people will tell me how bad that it > is, because it will keep a reference to the value which > will prevent the garbage collector from harvesting this > memory. Nobody will tell you that it's bad. Python was never about super performance, but about readability. Besides, using such temporaries won't consume much memory (relatively). > Besides python allows more than one statement on the same line. But it's discouraged in general. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
