: On 24 October 2012 11:18, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Zero Piraeus <sche...@gmail.com> wrote: >> [... on return values and side effects ...] > > Side point: It's not that it's *bad* code or even bad style;
It's a matter of taste, sure, but especially for a beginner, it's easy to find yourself using a method for its return value and forgetting that it actually does something to the object as well ... and then getting bitten later. > it just isn't the way Python generally does things. When in Rome ... :-) -[]z. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
