Oleg Broytman wrote:
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.

Forced? I do not use Python to be forced to use one style of programming over another.

And it's not like returning None will allow some clock calls to work but not others -- as soon as they try to use it, it will raise an exception.

~Ethan~
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