On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 12:04 AM David Raymond <david.raym...@tomtom.com> wrote: > if shell: > #wait, "shell" is not really a statement or an instruction. "If shell"... > what? "I need to shell"? Is this whether we want to use a shell, or if we > discovered that we're already in one? Or is "shell" not really a boolean, and > is holding which shell we want, and we're just using the "truthyness" to make > sure it's not None? What's going on here? Dangit, ok, where's the > documentation? > (subprocess is common enough that people know this, but imagine a much less > frequently used module/function) >
I suppose "use_shell" would be clearer, but a lot of verbs become implicit with the right choice of noun, as some nouns can become implicit with the right verb. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
