So far, I count 12 people who responded to the original post by Giampaolo. By my count, I see:
* five people in favour; * three people against, or see no need for it; * four people I can't tell if they are for or against, (possibly neutral?) [1]
For the little it's worth I'm +1 too. This seems like an obvious
On 11/2/18 7:39 AM, Anders Hovmöller wrote:> little improvement. I'm having a hard time seeing a real use case. Giampaolo's original post contains this link: https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil/blob/d8b05151e65f9348aff9b58da977abd8cac... Yuck (from an aesthetics standpoint, not a functional standpoint). :-) There's an impedance mismatch between the data, which is structured and has changed apparently arbitrarily between Linux releases, and the return value of string.split, which is an ordered collection. This code effectively hides that mismatch and yields Python tuples, which represent structured data. I can certainly see the desire for a simpler solution (for some definition of simpler), but how would adding a default parameter to list.pop make this code any simpler? Dan