At 01:42 PM 7/21/2008, Terry Carroll wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Daniel Sarmiento wrote:> What about the following function? > > if x == 0: > return False > return True I don't like it, myself. You have multiple points of exit, and, yes, you can see that the fallthough is only executed if the condition is not met, but it makes you do a double-take when reading it. If you insist on having the conditional, this is clearer: if x == 0: return False else: return True I'd rather have the condition test for truth, though: if x != 0: return True else: return False But that leads to what you don't like anyway, which I think is your best solution: return x != 0
Actually, and as I predicted, I'm beginning to like it. :-) Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
