> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com> wrote: >> Forgot to post the code. It is short, fast, and easy. It is explicit about >> handing the case with an empty input. And it is specific about which value >> it returns (always the first iterated value; not an arbitrary one). There's >> no guessing about what it does. It gets the job done. > > I'm trying to take this suggestion in the best possible light, > which is that you honestly think I didn't read past Chapter 3 of the > Python Tutorial, and I am therefore in fact unfamiliar with function > definitions.
I read Raymond's suggestion rather as a question: why bother with a tedious, multi-year process, when a three-line function will achieve exactly the same? Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
