Danny Yoo wrote: > One small comment: we often don't need to use temporary variables like > 'var'. > > def return_a_list(some_var): > some_list = [] > for i in range(5): > some_list.append(some_var + i) > return some_list > > Sometimes a temporary variable is useful, and sometimes not. Here, it > seems like it's not too necessary.
some_list is not too necessary either; this is a good place for a list comprehension: def return_a_list(some_var): return [ some_var + i for i in range(5) ] or for that matter return range(some_var:some_var+5) Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
