In article <mailman.12827.1407702752.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 10/08/2014 19:26, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > > Its when we have variables that are assigned in multiple places that > > we start seeing mathematical abominations like > > x = x+1 > > > > I'm not bothered about it being a mathematical or any other type of > abomination. It works, practically beats purity, so if it ain't broke, > please don't fix it, for some definition of fix. I'm with Mark. This isn't math, it's programming. Sure, the intersection of the two is non-null, but they are different things. I'll often do things like: for line in input: line = line.strip() # do more stuff Sure, I could invent some other variable name to avoid re-using the same name, but does: for line in input: stripped_line = line.strip() # do more stuff really make this any easier to read or understand? I think not. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
