On 1/30/11 1:13 PM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 30, 12:53 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: >> OH MY GOD. How can someone be expected to understand what a function does! > > Yes, and also how decorators word and generators work, and ... > >> Be serious! You can't expect that of them. > > I don't. I don't expect anyone to write 10 lines of obfuscation code > when just two will suffice. Maybe you should join the perl group as > they would proud!
Riiight. "suffice" doesn't mean what you think it means. Generally, if something suffices -- it actually, you know, ... works. My four lines of setup can get put into a library and treated as a recipe if they don't want to get into understanding generators or decorators: then its two lines to use, and those two lines are exactly like your two lines except for two little details: 1. They add a function call to the syntax. 2. They actually work. The OP doesn't have to understand decorators or generators if he doesn't want to: though I encourage him to do so, as they are beautiful and elegant tools that can very clearly and concisely help solve a lot of problems. Now, me? I wouldn't use the recipe, as I originally said in my response. I'd just use a local variable. But the OP didn't like that, and he wanted some indenting and whitespace to clearly demarcate where he intended to use the local. So I gave him a way to do that. You gave him... uh, what was it again? Oh, right. Nothing. As usual. -- Stephen Hansen ... Also: Ixokai ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io ... Blog: http://meh.ixokai.io/
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