[Tutor] Iterating over a long list with regular expressions andchanging each item?
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon May 4 19:50:30 CEST 2009
"Paul McGuire" <ptmcg at austin.rr.com> wrote
> For much of my own code, I find lists of string literals to be tedious to
> enter, and easy to drop a ' character. This style is a little easier on
> the
> eyes, and harder to screw up.
>
> 'case_def_gen':['case_def gen null'.split()],
> 'nsuff_fem_pl':['nsuff null null'.split()],
Shouldn't that be:
> 'case_def_gen':'case_def gen null'.split(),
> 'nsuff_fem_pl':'nsuff null null'.split(),
Otherwise you get a list inside a list.
> 'abbrev' : T('abbrev null null'),
> 'adj' : T('adj null null'),
> 'adv' : T('adv null null'),}
> (Yes, I know PEP8 says *not* to add spaces to line up assignments or
> other
> related values, but I think there are isolated cases where it does help
> to
> see what's going on. You could even write this as:
Absolutely! There are a few of the Python style PEPs that I disagree
with, this looks like another one.
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.alan-g.me.uk/
More information about the Tutor
mailing list