Request for feedback on my first Python program

Sean Legassick sean at datamage.net
Sat May 31 20:52:17 EDT 2003


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.

Sean

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