which is more 'pythonic' / 'better' ?
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Mon Sep 12 11:29:33 EDT 2005
Will McGugan wrote:
> Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:
>
>
>>>I would actualy use the following for this particular case..
>>>
>>>text = line[n:n+1] or 'nothing'
>>
>>
>>... and you would get either a list of one element or a string ...
>>I think you wanted to write :
>>
>>text = (line[n:n+1] or ['nothing'])[0]
>
>
> I was assuming that 'line' would be a string, not a list. Seems more
> likely give the name and context.
>
I'd say it's much more likely that line is a list of lines, since it
seems improbable that absence of a character should cause a value of
"nothing" to be required.
so-i-say-po-tay-to-ly y'rs - steve
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