[python-advocacy] example code

[Roy Smith]

On Nov 12, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:

> Just another option...
>
> print "Python is" + ', '.join([index + ', ' + each for each in  
> python])

Our job here is that of pitchman, huckster, pimp even.  We have very  
little time to capture somebody's interest.  What we are talking about  
is a tease.  Quick, obvious, to the point.  If our audience has to  
stop and think to understand what they're reading, we've already lost.

In other words, KISS.



>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009, Ray Allen wrote:
> >
> > # Create  list
> > python = ["Easy to read",
> > "Fast to code",
> > "Quick to learn",
> > "Modular and object oriented"]
>
> AFAIK, almost everyone indents multi-line expressions.  There are  
> several
> ways to do it, this is my preferred version:
>
> python = [
>    "Easy to read",
>    "Fast to code",
>    "Quick to learn",
>    "Modular and object oriented",
>    ]
>
> The reason I prefer this is because it makes it easy to edit the list,
> specifically including the trailing comma on the last element.  (E.g.
> it's much easier to delete the first list element than when you put it
> next to the opening bracket -- just delete the line.)  It's also  
> easy to
> read because the beginning and end of the list are highly visible.  I
> prefer to indent only one level rather than matching up the  
> beginning and
> ending brackets because that gives more line length to the list  
> contents.
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