PyWart: Language missing maximum constant of numeric types!
Rick Johnson
rantingrickjohnson at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 15:35:52 EST 2012
On Feb 25, 11:54 am, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> [...]
> That should be:
> if maxlength is not None and len(string) <= maxlength:
Using "imaginary" infinity values defiles the intuitive nature of your
code. What is more intuitive?
def confine_length(string, maxlength=INFINITY):
if string.length < maxlength:
do_something()
def confine_length(string, maxlength=None):
if maxlength is not None and len(string) <= maxlength:
do_something()
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