On Jan 30, 12:53 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: > On 1/30/11 10:35 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > > Well congratulations Stephen, you win the obfuscation prize of the > > year! > > Yes, > > On 1/30/11 10:09 AM, rantingrick wrote: > > > Here is how a pythonic local block would look > > > with this as localvar: > > localvar.do_something() > > verses > > with my(this) as localvar: > localvar.do_something() > > Is dreadfully more, er, obfuscated.
Absolutely! > I mean someone would have to know what the 'my' function does to > understand what's going on! Yes, and also how decorators word and generators work, and ... > OH MY GOD. How can someone be expected to understand what a function does! Yes, and also how decorators word and generators work, and ... > Be serious! You can't expect that of them. I don't. I don't expect anyone to write 10 lines of obfuscation code when just two will suffice. Maybe you should join the perl group as they would proud! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list