On Friday 23 September 2005 10:41 am, Rick Wotnaz wrote: > Oh, 'ix' would be fine. Single-letter loop counters are also semi- > fine if that is in fact their only use. It too-frequently happens > that at some point the handy 'i' identifier is used outside the > loop (for another placeholder), and its value is tromped by an > intervening loop. Not terribly difficult to discover, but then > what? When you're maintaining code, even a two-character index is a > *lot* easier to find in source code and replace as needed.
Sorry, but if you have to grep for it, your loop is TOO DARNED LARGE, USE A FUNCTION CALL! -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
