Re: [Tutor] am I missing another simpler structure?

[Juan Shen]

Kent Johnson wrote:
Brian van den Broek wrote:
I've begun to wonder if I am overlooking a improvement similar to 
that in DogWalker's suggestion. As an example of the sort of thing I 
have been doing:

import datetime
def is_leap_year(year):
    '''-> boolean
    Returns True or False as year is, or is not, a leap year.
    '''
    is_leap = True
    try:
        datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
    except ValueError:
        is_leap = False
    return is_leap

I would write
def is_leap_year(year):
    try:
        datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
        return True
    except ValueError:
        return False
Kent
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Yeah, I support Kent.  Brian's code is obviously C style,  define a 
variable and give it an origin value, then use it, modify its value and 
so on.  If you choose Python, you should adapt to it that variable 
needn't to be defined specificly before being used!
   Juan Shen

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