ternary operator

[Wojtek Walczak]

Dnia Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:19:41 GMT, Andrew Koenig napisał(a):
> David> I think that's POOR programming practice!
> 
> Then how would you write the following loop?
> 
>         i = 0;
>         while i < len(n) and x[i] != y:
>                 i += 1
Here's what I'm assuming:

n = "QQQ"
y = "y"
x = "abcdfghy"

and here's the rest of the script:

# here's your way
i = 0
while i < len(n) and x[i] != y:
   i += 1
print i

# the other way ;)
print len(filter(lambda z: z!=y, list(x)[:len(n)]))

...but, well, in almost any case I'd use while loop, and what's _POOR_
for me is top-posting on Usenet rather than using i=0;while ...:... :)

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