April 19, 2005
8:27 p.m.
IMO this is clearer, and even shorter! But it clutters the namespace with objects you don't need.
Why do people care about cluttering namespaces so much? I thought thats' what namespaces were for -- to put stuff you want to remember for a bit. A function's local namespace in particular seems a perfectly fine place for temporaries. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)