Avoiding local variable declarations?

[Arnaud Delobelle]

dpapathanasiou <denis.papathanasiou at gmail.com> writes:

>> but what's wrong with you original code?
>
> I come from a functional programming school of thought, where you
> avoid local variable declarations if at all possible.

Holding on to this principle won't help you write nice Python code :)

Although you will acquire lots of clever-looking tricks.

-- 
Arnaud