Good code patterns in Python

[Michele Simionato]

hwlgw at hotmail.com (Will Stuyvesant) wrote in message news:<cb035744.0307010149.399df2eb at posting.google.com>...
> If you know that your source code is going to be used
> later by others, then I feel that code with the pattern:
> 
>     if some_condition:
>         some_name = some_value
>     else:
>         some_name = other_value
> 
> is often a mistake.  Much better, safer, would be:
> 
>     some_name = some_value
>     if not some_condition:
>         some_name = other_value

I am sorry, but I feel that the first form is MUCH more readable than the
second one; the first form is crystal clear to me, whereas I must read 
the second form two or three times to understand what it is going on.
I would never follow "guidestyles" suggesting the second one!
I only miss a ternary operator ... ;)


            Michele