Python Module: nift

[Paul McGuire]

On Feb 8, 3:28 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> This I disagree with as being unnecessarily clever; the dict literal
> is just fine as-is and the zip() makes it less clear. However, I would
> definitely rewrite the dict to use less lines, which, after removing
> the capital dupes (as I mentioned in my post, just use .lower()),
> looks like:
>
> LEET_LETTERS = {"e" : "3", "a" : "4", "i" : "1", "t" : "7", "s" : "5",
>     "o" : "0", "b" : "8"}
>

Maybe so, I was trying to illustrate zip() and maybe this was getting
too far ahead for a new Python user.

I *do* find that when initializing a list of characters (and for some
reason a string wont do), then instead of this:

vowels = ["A", "E", "I", "O", "U"]


using the list constructor is much easier:

vowels = list("AEIOU")


Or more non-deterministically,

sometimes = lambda s : [s] if random.random() > 0.5 else []
vowels = list("AEIOU") + sometimes("Y")


-- Paul