Ifs and assignments

[Mark Lawrence]

On 03/01/2014 04:25, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
>> Or turn it into a generator:
>> That certainly makes your mainline code cleaner...
>
> Cleaner perhaps, but not clearer. Instead of seeing the original
> function (say, a database retrieve-next call), you see a wrapper and
> have to go dig to find out what it's actually doing. Unless it's some
> kind of generic handler, like:
>
> def funcinator(func,*args):
>     while True:
>        var = func(*args)
>        if var:
>           yield var
>        else:
>           break
>
> while funcinator(cur.getnext):
>      ....
>
> But even that would be problematic until it got so thoroughly
> understood that it's like enumerate() - which is itself still not
> perfect.
>
> ChrisA
>

I find the above rather funcy :)

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Mark Lawrence