Raymond Hettinger wrote: > def contact_info_update(timestamp, sequence_number, (name, address, > phone, > email), backup=True):
Things like that are probably better done with something like the named-tuple idea that was discussed recently. Writing code that depends on long sequences having things in particular positions is an anti-pattern, IMO. It's convenient at first, but it rapidly becomes unmaintainable. I wrote a lot of code like that in one of my recent projects, and it's one of the first things I'll change if I get around to re-doing it. > Another example comes from a spherical navigation module with several tuple > representations for movement (lat_offset, long_offset) versus (dist, > direction). That could be addressed by giving the arguments descriptive names, such as lat_long and dist_dir. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
