crimes in Python
Dan Schmidt
dfan at harmonixmusic.com
Wed Mar 8 11:27:25 EST 2000
Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
| kragen at dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker) writes:
|
| > >> sys.stderr.write(join(
| > >> map((lambda x: 'age' + `x` + "\tsex"
| > >> + `x` + "\trace" + `x`),
| > >> range(1, max_suspects+1)))
| > >> )
|
| Random advice: while you're learning Python, forget map exists.
|
| This is a particularly heinous use of it, as you're using it for
| side-effects and ignoring the results.
Isn't he passing the resulting list to join()?
| I think map is occasionally useful for actually mapping a function
| over a list of inputs, but in this context it makes no sense.
|
| > for i in range(1, max_suspects+1):
| > sys.stderr.write('\tage%d\tsex%d\trace%d' % (i, i, i))
|
| This is so much better, isn't it? I can tell at a glance what you're
| up to, whereas I couldn't really tell from your `map'.
Both the map and the explicit for are equally intelligible to me, but
I've always been a fan of a functional style.
I do agree that using map on a range (rather than a list you already
have) is kind of awkward.
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Dan Schmidt | http://www.dfan.org
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