On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:20:55 -0000, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Do you find this
(open, gzip.GzipFile)[Entry.endswith(".gz")](os.path.join(PatchesDir, Entry), "r")
complicated or hard to understand? It's made up of very simple pieces,
combined according to very simple rules, viz:-

Yes, it's very pretty, and you're terribly clever.  In six months' time
when you come back to make some engineering change and have to sit down and
break it back down into those simple pieces to remind yourself what it's
doing, "pretty" and "clever" will not be the words you are using.  Trust
me on this one.

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