Linux shell to python

Alister alister.ware at ntlworld.com
Tue Jul 31 06:53:41 EDT 2012


On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 08:15:32 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:

> On 31/07/2012 02:20, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:56:48 +0000, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com>
>> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>>
>>> Sigh, and I'm also not keen on multi-line list comprehensions,
>>> specifically because I think they tend to make less readable code.  It
>>> also becomes a mess when you need to insert print statements to get
>>> some visibility into what's going on.
>>
>> 	Cleanly splitting the list-comp by
>>
>> 	[ result-computation
>> 		for-item-selection-clause if-filter-clause ]
>>
>> isn't that unreadable... But anyone doing
>>
>> 	[ result-
>> 		-computation for-item- -selection-clause if- -filter-
>> 		-clause ]
>>
>> should be pecked to death by a dead parrot.
>>
>>
> Any particular species?

as has already been hinted - Norwegian Blue



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