James Lu wrote:
I think
print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless Weather.is_raining()
Is more readable than
if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
sunscreen!")
That's very much a matter of opinion -- I find the second version
considerably clea
I'm concerned that in this thread, and elsewhere, we're not paying
sufficient attention to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_load.
Adding a feature to a system can increase the cognitive load in
learning the system, and it can also reduce the cognitive load in
using the system. Sometimes add
On Jun 24, 2019, at 10:27, Dan Sommers <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com>
wrote:
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> On 6/24/19 12:32 PM, James Lu wrote:
>
> > I think
> >
> > print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless
> > Weather.is_raining()
> >
> > Is more readable than
> >
> > if hot_outside and not Weat
On 6/24/19 12:32 PM, James Lu wrote:
> I think
>
> print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless
Weather.is_raining()
>
> Is more readable than
>
> if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
sunscreen!")
I disagree, but that's bound to happen in a discu
On 2019-06-24 17:32, James Lu wrote:
I think
print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless Weather.is_raining()
Is more readable than
if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
sunscreen!")
I think the unless syntax would be especially useful when there
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 3:01 AM James Lu wrote:
>
> I think
>
> print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless
> Weather.is_raining()
>
> Is more readable than
>
> if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
> sunscreen!")
>
> I think the unless syntax would
I think
print("Remember to wear sunscreen!") if hot_outside unless Weather.is_raining()
Is more readable than
if hot_outside and not Weather.is_raining(): print("Remember to wear
sunscreen!")
I think the unless syntax would be especially useful when there is a series of
functions like this.
Folks,
Can I please remind people to trim their quoting? We readers shouldn't
have to hit the Page Down key eight or nine times, or scroll down
through five or six pages, to see the first new content.
(I have a rule: if I haven't reached new content after nine screens of
quoting, I give up and
On 2019-06-24 05:39, Andrew Barnert wrote:
On Jun 23, 2019, at 19:57, MRAB wrote:
>
>> On 2019-06-24 02:43, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>> On Jun 23, 2019, at 13:33, MRAB wrote:
>>
>> > Finally, under "For consideration: alternative syntaxes", my offering would be:
>> > > expr if condition1 and n
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 10:38 PM MRAB wrote:
> Well, I suppose it could work with parentheses, but not necessarily in
> the way you want/expect. If customer_wants("spam") returns False, then
> (quux("spam", "eggs", "sausage", "spam") unless customer_wants("spam"))
> could mean ()! (You could say t
On 2019-06-24 09:23, Chris Angelico wrote:> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:03
PM Andrew Barnert wrote:
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>> On Sunday, June 23, 2019, 10:13:07 PM PDT, Chris Angelico
wrote:
>>
>> > The biggest problem with this proposal is the way that, being a
>> > syntactic construct, it's going to be non-compo
Now that Python is beginning to embrace type annotations, is it worth
revisiting the idea of having extended integers and an integer infinity?
I found myself trying to annotate this line:
events_to_do: Union[int, float] = math.inf
where I am only including float in the union to accommodate math
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 6:03 PM Andrew Barnert wrote:
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> On Sunday, June 23, 2019, 10:13:07 PM PDT, Chris Angelico
> wrote:
>
> > The biggest problem with this proposal is the way that, being a
> > syntactic construct, it's going to be non-composable.
>
> > # Oops, syntax error
> > with (some_e
On Sunday, June 23, 2019, 10:13:07 PM PDT, Chris Angelico
wrote:
> The biggest problem with this proposal is the way that, being a
> syntactic construct, it's going to be non-composable.
> # Oops, syntax error
> with (some_expr as q,
> some_other_expr as w):> pass
I don't understan
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