On 2011.07.08 05:59 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > With the caveat that the formatting of that line should be using PEP 8 > indentation for clarity: PEP 8 isn't bad, but I don't agree with everything in it. Certain lines look good in chunks, some don't, at least to me. It's quite likely I'm going to be writing 98%, if not more, of this project's code, so what looks good to me matters more than a standard (as long as the code works). Obviously, if I need to work in a team, then things change. > > and when a variable is used a bunch of times, concatenation is fine, I prefaced that sentence with "Other than the case", as in "except for the following case(s)". > There is often more than one way to do it. The Zen of Python is explicit > that there should be one obvious way to do it (and preferably only one). I meant in contrast to the idea of intentionally having multiple ways to do something, all with roughly equal merit.
On 2011.07.08 04:38 PM, Ian Kelly wrote: > Also, string formatting (especially using the new syntax like you are) > is much clearer because there's less noise (the quotes all over the > place and the plusses) I don't find it that much clearer unless there are a lot of chunks. > and it's better for dealing with internationalization if you need to > do that. I hadn't thought of that. That's probably the best reason to use string formatting. Thanks, everyone. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list