1-line idiom to replace if blocks

[John Roth]

"Chad Netzer" <cnetzer at mail.arc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:mailman.1043443912.5414.python-list at python.org...
> On Friday 24 January 2003 09:10, Robin Munn wrote:

> I think the general principal applies elsewhere.

The "general principle" is that anything *you* use frequently is
perfectly
normal, regardless of how it looks to anyone else. Anything you don't
use frequently, is abnormal, bad, the work of Satan or whatever,
again regardless of whether anyone else finds it useful or whether
it serves a useful, possibly absolutely necessary purpose.

John Roth