Code basics

[Lance Ellinghaus]

For some of us (C programmers by trade), this type of coding is very normal and
has no readability problems.

In C you could do the following:

printf( (getNumberOfSomething()==10 ? "Tjohoo" : "Oh no!") );

When I first saw this code posted, I thought "Nice! Clean and simple"...

Lance Ellinghaus


-------From: Justin Sheehy  on 03/17/2000 1:28:22 PM-------

From: Justin Sheehy <dworkin at ccs.neu.edu>
To: python-list
cc:
Subject: Re: Code basics






Jeff Pinyan <jeffp at crusoe.net> writes:

>   while notDone:
>     print ("Oh no!","Tjohoo")[this.getNumberOfSomething() == 10]
>
> Now, I ask you folk, is that "bad" Python?  Is that "bad" programming in
> general, to be brief and succinct like that?  I'm curious -- I have a
> tendency to do things like that.

I'd call it bad programming, because succintness should not take
priority over readability.  Unless you're using some other P___ language.

Besides, you used one more line than you needed.  <wink>

-Justin



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