Terry Hancock wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 07:05 pm, Erik Max Francis wrote: >>I personally think that map looks clearer than a list comprehension for >>a simple function call
> This on the other hand, >> [str(x) for x in sequence] > is practically plain English: > > "call the function "str" on x, for every x in sequence" > > Other than chopping out a few words, and using the () operator instead > of "call", it's hard to imagine this being any closer to exactly what you > would say to describe the operation. And for most of us, English comes > easier than Computer Science jargon. And with a better choice of names than "x", that line becomes even more self-documenting. [str(parrot) for parrot in sequence], for example, tells you much more about what is going on than str(x) does. Exactly what, I have no idea... but it says _so_ much more. ;-) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
