[Tutor] am I missing another simpler structure?

[Kent Johnson]

Brian van den Broek wrote:
> I've begun to wonder if I am overlooking a 
> improvement similar to that in DogWalker's suggestion. As an example of 
> the sort of thing I have been doing:
> 
> import datetime
> def is_leap_year(year):
>     '''-> boolean
> 
>     Returns True or False as year is, or is not, a leap year.
>     '''
>     is_leap = True
>     try:
>         datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
>     except ValueError:
>         is_leap = False
>     return is_leap

I would write
def is_leap_year(year):
     try:
         datetime.date(year, 2, 29)
         return True
     except ValueError:
         return False

Kent