[Tutor] am I missing another simpler structure?

[Juan Shen]

Kent Johnson wrote:

> Brian van den Broek wrote:
>
>> I've begun to wonder if I am overlooking a improvement similar to 
>> that in DogWalker's suggestion. As an example of the sort of thing I 
>> have been doing:
>>
>> import datetime
>> def is_leap_year(year):
>>     '''-> boolean
>>
>>     Returns True or False as year is, or is not, a leap year.
>>     '''
>>     is_leap = True
>>     try:
>>         datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
>>     except ValueError:
>>         is_leap = False
>>     return is_leap
>
>
> I would write
> def is_leap_year(year):
>     try:
>         datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
>         return True
>     except ValueError:
>         return False
>
> Kent
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Yeah, I support Kent.  Brian's code is obviously C style,  define a 
variable and give it an origin value, then use it, modify its value and 
so on.  If you choose Python, you should adapt to it that variable 
needn't to be defined specificly before being used!
    Juan Shen