crimes in Python

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <wkem9lxw9e.fsf at turangalila.harmonixmusic.com>,
Dan Schmidt  <dfan at harmonixmusic.com> wrote:
>Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:
>| kragen at dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker) writes:
>| > >> sys.stderr.write(join(
>| > >> 	map((lambda x: 'age' + `x` + "\tsex" 
>| > >> 	     + `x` + "\trace" + `x`),
>| > >> 	range(1, max_suspects+1)))
>| > >> 	)
>| 
>| Random advice: while you're learning Python, forget map exists.
>| 
>| This is a particularly heinous use of it, as you're using it for
>| side-effects and ignoring the results.
>
>Isn't he passing the resulting list to join()?

Yes, but the fact that he couldn't tell what was going on is enough of
an indictment in itself.  :)

I tend to think formatting is the major problem with this particular
statement.  I didn't even notice I had left out the separator argument
to join().
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