[Tutor] Different idioms for making lists of strings

[Erik Price]

On Thursday, September 5, 2002, at 07:35  PM, Scot W. Stevenson wrote:

> which of course is a lot easier to type, the computation involved 
> should be
> trivial, and the days when you would have had to import the string 
> module
> to do stuff like this are long over. So I thought I'd point it out to 
> the
> rest of the crowd here.

That never would have occurred to me.  And it is a quicker way to do 
it.  It doesn't feel as "right" (canonical?) as the traditional List 
literal, but there's really nothing wrong with it.

I guess the only thing is that it's not as obvious as using a List 
literal (assuming that obviousness is something that should be praised 
in the Python approach), but it's hardly obfuscated.

Thanks Scot.



Erik

(PS: it reminds me of Perl's qw() function)





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