On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 6:23:12 PM UTC-4, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 8:13:50 PM UTC+12, Ned Batchelder wrote: > > > But the unchained version is more explicit, and avoids > > the awkward parenthesis. > > You think of parentheses as “awkward”? Because elsewhere I see people > recommending you put them in even if you don’t need them, for “clarity”.
Parentheses are used for a number of different purposes. It won't be possible to make a sweeping statement about them everywhere. I use "extra" parentheses to make operator application order clearer where it isn't obvious to me, for example. --Ned. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
