On 2010-10-21, Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmic...@sequans.com> wrote: > It can be short if descriptive:
> for o, c in cars: > park(o) > phone(c) > for owner, car in cars: # by just using meaningful names you give the > info to the reader that you expect cars to be a list of tuple (owner, car) > park(owner) > phone(car) # see how it is easier to spot bug In this case, yes. The one that brought this up, though, was "except FooError, e:", and in that case, there is no need for any further description; the description is provided by the "except", and "e" is a perfectly reasonable, idiomatic, pronoun for the caught exception. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
