Python is readable

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:55:07 -0400, Nathan Rice wrote:

> This is one of my gripes with the dogmatic application of the "break it
> into multiple statements" mantra of Python.

I must admit I don't recognise that one, unless you're talking about "not 
everything needs to be a one liner".


> Not only are you forced to
> use generators to maintain semantic equivalence in many cases, in some
> cases a partial statement fragment doesn't have any intuitive meaning. 
> The result is that readers are forced to hold the value of
> intermediate_variable in their head while reading another statement,
> then translate the statement to the conceptually complete form.  A
> statement should be an encoding from a conceptual space to a operation
> space, and ideally the two should be as similar as possible.
>  If a concept is atomic, it should not be comprised of multiple
> statements.

Perhaps you could give some examples (actual or contrived) of stuff where 
"breaking it into multiple statements" is a bad thing?


-- 
Steven