On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:03:02AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote: > Oleg Broytman wrote: > > . Pythonic equivalent of "get_clock(THIS) or get_clok(THAT)" is > > > >for flag in (THIS, THAT): > > try: > > clock = get_clock(flag) > > except: > > pass > > else: > > break > >else: > > raise ValueError('Cannot get clock, tried THIS and THAT') > > > Wow -- you'd rather write nine lines of code instead of three? > > clock = get_clock(THIS) or get_clock(THAT) > if clock is None: > raise ValueError('Cannot get clock, tried THIS and THAT')
Yes - to force people to write the last two lines. Without forcing most programmers will skip them. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ 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