Sean DiZazzo <half.ital...@gmail.com> wrote: >> def print_item(item): >> description = textwrap.fill(item.description, 40) >> short = item.description.split('\n', 1)[0] >> code = str(item.id).zfill(6) >> print "%(code)s %(short)s\n%(description)s\n" % locals() > >I see the use of that, but according to Zen, "Explicit is better than >implicit."
I'm having trouble imaginging what a "more explicit" version would be. I use this idiom a lot for code generation, finding it much more readable than: "%s %s\n%s\n" % (code, short, description) or even: code + ' ' + short + '\n' + description + '\n' What I'm not clear about is under what circumstances locals() does not produce the same result as vars() . -- \S under construction
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