On 2009 Sep 5, at 12:22 PM, Mark Tolonen wrote:
As a list comp:L=range(30,41) [{38:34,40:39}.get(n,n) for n in L][30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 34, 39, 39]
True, that is terse, but IMHO has maintainability issues. The mapping data structure and the method of transformation (.get()) are tangled in with the transformation itself. Again, IMHO, unless this is a very short script, the maintenance should outweigh raw terseness.
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