jonathan.beckett wrote:
>> ...
>> class Battleship(object):
>> ...
>> def getShellsLeft(self):
>> numShells = 0
>> for aGun in self.guns:
>> numShells += aGun.shells
>> return numShells
>> ...
>
> Excellent example - once upon a time I used to write very neat code
> indeed, but exposure to C# had pretty much knackered that (where all
> the framework object methods are capitalized).
Here's an improvement:
For Python 2.3: # using the "sum" primitive
...
def getShellsLeft(self):
return sum([aGun.shells for aGun in self.guns])
...
For Python 2.4 or later: # allows generator expressions
...
def getShellsLeft(self):
return sum(aGun.shells for aGun in self.guns)
...
--Scott David Daniels
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