Doctest failing
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Sun Sep 11 14:43:38 EDT 2011
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Alister Ware
> <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>> Ignoring the docttests my process would be to process each word & then
>> manually capitalize he 1st word, .I would als0 use a comprehension as
>> makes for cleaner code:-
>>
>> def capitalize(word):
>> if word in small_words:
>> return word
>> else:
>> return word.title()
>
> And I'd do this with a lambda, but that's just me. Of course, if your
> logic is more complicated, it makes more sense to keep it in a named
> function, but a single conditional call can fit nicely into a lambda.
Lambdas are great when needed, but if don't *need* it, and you have more
than a few, debugging can be a nightmare... "Okay, so this is function
<lambda>... and that is function <lambda>... and over here we also have
function <lambda>... ARGH!"
~Ethan~
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