Note very, VERY, *VERY* carefully that the quote says nothing about "boring code". The quote explicitly refers to "reams of trivial code" as boring -- and that's quite true. Consider this distinction:
Thank you for this important clarification.
if foo == 'red': print 'foo is red' elif foo == 'blue': print 'foo is blue'
versus
print "foo is", foo
Is the space added automatically? (Like awk does, if you add a comma.)
I'm sure you can think of many other examples -- real examples -- if you put your mind to work; Guido's point is about the essential necessity of refactoring and rewriting code for conciseness and clarity.
Which is a good point to make in almost any language, for code that is to be maintained.
Sunnan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
