gah! I hate the new string syntax

Carl Banks idot at vt.edu
Fri Mar 2 04:42:56 EST 2001


Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <shaleh at valinux.com> wrote:
> return ";".join(["%s=%s" % (k, params[k]) for k in params.keys()])
>
> every day python seems to be moving closer to the line noise aspect of
> coding.

I find it ok for methodlike functions such as split.

For unmethodlike functions such as join, I would use the old
string.join syntax (for regular strings, anyways).

"".join is just creepy.


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CARL BANKS

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 This is not one of them."



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