Avoiding local variable declarations?

[Paul McGuire]

On Nov 14, 12:08 pm, Mark Wooding <m... at distorted.org.uk> wrote:
> Chris Mellon <arka... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any time you port between languages, it's rarely a good idea to just
> > convert code verbatim. For example:
>
> > import random, string
> > def random_char():
> >     return random.choice(string.ascii_letters + string.digits)
>
> Note that this code doesn't preserve the output distribution of the
> original, for which once expects half the characters to be numeric.  I
> don't know if that's relevant; in fact I suspect that the original was
> buggy.
>
> -- [mdw]

I couldn't have said it better myself.  Well, if not better, at least
earlier...
(http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/580779bf57e4d3a0?
hl=en)

-- Paul