On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
>>
>> Any thoughts on how others make the choice?
>>
>> -tkc
>
> If one branch is only a few lines, it comes first. As often as not, that
> tiny branch is checking for errors, and the "else" branch doesn't need to be
> indented.
>
> def func(arg1):
> if arg1 is 'stupid':
> raise ValueError("that's a stupid argument!")
> do_something
> do_something_else
> etc, etc
>
>
> ~Ethan~
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Something similar in a for-loop:
for x in y:
if not should_process(x): continue
# process x
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