Feature suggestion -- return if true

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.461.1303043638.9059.python-list at python.org>,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
>On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:21:53 +1200
>Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> My idiom for fetching from a cache looks like this:
>> 
>>    def get_from_cache(x):
>>      y = cache.get(x)
>>      if not y:
>>        y = compute_from(x)
>>        cache[x] = y
>>      return y
>
>I prefer not to create and destroy objects needlessly.
>
> def get_from_cache(x):
>   if not x in cache:
>     cache[x] = compute_from(x)
>   return cache[x]

Aside from Steven's entirely appropriate pointed question, I find this
more readable:

    if x not in cache:

Without testing, I'm not sure, but I believe it's more efficient, too
(creates fewer bytecodes).
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