[Tutor] Suggestions for more efficient and optimized coding technique,
spir
denis.spir at free.fr
Thu Jan 8 22:06:30 CET 2009
Le Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:34:49 -0500,
"Michael Langford" <michael.langford at gmail.com> a écrit :
> Here is your algorithm made more pythonic. Notice the use of default
> parameters, doc strings, not abbreviated variable names, unix C style
> capitolization (very subjective, but often the one found in python
> libs), the avoidance of control variables when possible, the use of
> ascii_lowercase instead of your own string and the not calling
> functions main that aren't __main__.
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import string
> import random
>
> def rand_string(length = 5):
> """returns a random string of numbers"""
> return ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_lowercase,length))
Since you wish to use (not necessary) optional args, it may be worth defining
def rand_string(length = 5):
"""returns a random string of numbers"""
return ''.join(random.sample(string.ascii_lowercase,length))
which also avoids reading string.ascii_lowercase in each loop
denis
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