Request for feedback on my first Python program

[Gerhard Haering]

* Sean Legassick <sean at datamage.net> [2003-06-01 02:52 +0200]:
> In message <slrnbdeevn.694.andrew-usenet at athena.jcn.srcf.net>, Andrew 
> Walkingshaw <andrew-usenet at lexical.org.uk> writes
> >def isMeaningful(line):
> >   if line != "" and line[0] != "#":
> >       return True
> >   else:
> >       return False
> 
> Yuck!
> 
> def isMeaningful(line):
>     return line != "" and line[0] != "#";
> 
> No offence intended, but I've seen this too often in real code not to
> point out its redundancy here.

No offence intended, but your code is redundant as well ;-)

def isMeaningful(line):
    return not line.startswith("#")

And omit the trailing semicolon, you filthy C/C++/Java programmer :-P

Gerhard
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