Handling 3 operands in an expression without raising an exception

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-09-27, Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:32:23 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 27/09/2013 18:00, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2013-09-27, ?????????? <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sure your method follows the the logic in a straighforward way
>>>> step-by-step but i just dont want to spent almost 20 lines of code
>>>> just to calculate 2 variables(city and host).
>>>
>>> Does your provider charge you per line of code?
>>>
>>> If all that matters is the number of lines of code then use this:
>>>
>>>    city,host = 0,0
>>>
>>> Only _1_ nice short line of code.
>>>
>>> Happy?
>>>
>>>
>> Classic overengineering, fancy wasting two whole spaces and having such
>> long names.  Surely c,h=0,0 is vastly superior?
>
> Why not c=h=0
>
> 2 characters (28%) shorter!

And 47% more opaque!

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