On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 09:44 -0700, Jon Crump wrote: > Just as a matter of curiosity piqued by having to understand someone > else's code. Is the difference here just a matter of style, or is one > better somehow than the other? > > >>> l > [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] > > >>> ','.join([str(x) for x in l]) > '0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10' > > >>> ','.join(map(lambda x:str(x), l)) > '0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10'
Considering that "readability metters" I would go for none of the two, but for: ','.join(map(str, l)) (Indeed defining a lambda function that simply uses "str" is redundant) Just my personal take on this, though! Mac. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
