On 07 novembre 20:00, Omega Weapon wrote:
> On 07/11/12 07:34, afayolle wrote:
> >On 06/11/2012 17:44, Julien Cristau wrote:
> >>First, let me thank you for the patch.
> >>
> >>On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 12:54:40 +0100, Omega Weapon wrote:
> >>
> >>>I have forked the Bitbucket pylint repo and committed here: 
> >>>https://bitbucket.org/OmegaPhil/pylint/changeset/87bc90372e57064bb97866b47e34de12747889c1
> >>>
> >>Couldn't
> >>msgType = msg[0][:1] if len(msg[0])>  1 else msg[0]
> >>be rewritten as
> >>msgType = msg[0][0]
> >>?
> >
> >I have not looked in depth as the code, but msg[0][0] will throw an
> >IndexError if len(msg[0]) == 0, whereas the above code will set msgType
> >to an empty list.
> >
> >Using msgType = msg[0][:1] will work regardless of len(msg[0]) (since
> >slices never generate IndexError).
> 
> Thanks for the responses - back on this now. I completely missed the
> latter fact - thanks afayolle... not even a need for an if! So the
> whole problem is solved with the '[:1]'.
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/OmegaPhil/pylint/changeset/a9c692e0329069ab75f2e915ac017cd2e3a6502b
> has now been committed.

Fine, but I can't think of a case where message type will be an empty string.
Not a big deal though.

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