[Tutor] Pythonese/Efficiency/Generalese critique please

[Lee Cullens]

Such would serve to pull the test and the reason for it together -  
more obvious.

Which is a good point in writing code that others may read.

Thanks Liam


On Jun 5, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Liam Clarke wrote:


>
>
> > There is no need for the if(dlst); if the list is empty the  
> iteration will do nothing. You can write this as
> >     for dlf in os.listdir(pname):
>
>    Though it is quite distant, there is an else statement which makes
> the if construct a requierement.
>
> Javier
>
>
> You could just do -
>
> if not len(dlst):
>       #Your else code block here
>
> for dlf in os.listdir(pname):
>
> and so forth.
>
>
>
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