For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

Andrew Dalke adalke at mindspring.com
Sun Feb 9 23:06:28 EST 2003


Carlos Ribeiro:
> Then I wonder why do people think that the following snippet is pythonic
in
> any (reasonable) way:
>
>   ','.join(lines)
>
> In what direction does it reads?

"Use a comma to join these lines"

Still confusing, but I understand the reasons why.

And in general, "obj.func(arg)" is "use this object to do this
function to these arguments."

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com






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