On Thursday 21 December 2006 15:23, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Now it seem that introducing them has the unfortunate side effect > that people think they *have* to use them, and that doing so gives > better code...
Speaking strictly for myself: I don't think I *have* to use them, but I do prefer to use them because I don't like magic constants that affect what a function does in code; I'd rather have a named constant for readability's sake. Maybe I just can't keep enough in my head, but I don't find I actually use seek() enough to remember what the numeric values mean with checking the reference documentation. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
