"jamadagni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you are going to reference self.quit a lot of times then it makes >> sense to also assign it to a local variable and then you already get >> even fewer characters (239): > > But you realize readability decreases considerably. > Not as much as it would with your 'using' statement. Using a local alias for an expression lets you use appropriate mnemonic abbreviations for multiple expressions with. Nested 'using' statements means you have to look back through the code to try to work out which is in scope at each level. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list