[John J Lee] > But it's a very readable way to write a common operation. Perhaps one > reason the discrepancy you point out doesn't bother me is that > division is > the least-used of the +-*/ arithmetic operations.
Do you have evidence to back that up? It seems a strange claim. Outside of doing 'maths-y' work, I would think I'd use + most (but for strings), then / (for percentages). > Also, &, | and ^ seem like some sort of precedent, to my brain (if > they > don't to yours, that's fine and I believe you ;-). I don't follow this, sorry. You're referring to the bitwise operations? [Ian Bicking] > Curious how often I use os.path.join and division, I searched a > project > of mine, and in 12k lines there were 34 uses of join, and 1 use of > division. In smaller scripts os.path.join tends to show up a lot more > (per line). I'm sure there's people who use division far more than I, > and os.path.join less, but I'm guessing the majority of users are more > like me. The problem with these sorts of guesses is that there's no evidence. (Maybe the suggestion that Brett's PhD should collect a corpus of Python scripts was a good one <wink>). Are mathematicians that under represented? Is file processing that highly represented? I have no idea. =Tony.Meyer _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
