On 4/10/07, Carsten Haese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > > > > Your alternative is wrong because it wont raise ValueError if > > current_player is not present in the tuple. Please revise your > > "solution." > > You have a point. Here is my revised solution: > > assert current_player in p > opponents = tuple(x for x in p if x is not current_player) > > The added advantage is that AssertionError is better than IndexError for > conveying that a severe program bug has occurred.
Assertions are not checked when you run scripts with -O. Furthermore, changing the exception type and the message it produces, is quite a big deviation from list.index. -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
