Why does list have no 'get' method?

George Sakkis george.sakkis at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 16:36:57 EST 2008


On Feb 7, 4:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:59:13 +0100, Wildemar Wildenburger wrote:
> > Arnaud Delobelle wrote:
> >> Personally, between
>
> >> * foo if foo else bar
> >> * foo or bar
>
> >> I prefer the second. Maybe it could be spelt
>
> >> * foo else bar ?
>
> > How about
>
> > val = foo rather than bar
>
> > If that is not clear and obvios, I don't know what is.  ;)
>
> In English, the expression "foo rather than bar" means "bar is never
> chosen, foo is always chosen".

Ok, the fix is easy:

val = BETTER foo THAN bar

;-)


Cobol-strikes-back-ly yours,

George



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