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Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Fri Feb 26 22:32:02 CET 2010 
Am 26.02.2010 17:09, schrieb Boris Borcic:
> Stefan Behnel wrote:
>> Stephen J. Turnbull, 26.02.2010 04:28:
>>> Greg Ewing writes:
>>>
>>>   >     [x from stuff]
>>>   >
>>>   >  is a shorthand for
>>>   >
>>>   >     [x for x in stuff]
>>>
>>> Any time you say "shorthand" you're probably violating TOOWTDI. :-)
>>
>> Absolutely, so I would expect this to have zero change to make it in.
> 
> Now that's quite a pun, or more exactly quite an à peu près. Of course if 
> TOOWTDI runs, it gets characteristic of any change that TOOWTDI is violated, eg, 
> the one old way, the one new way.

Not really -- remember that there is "obvious" in the acronym.  We should
strive to make such changes that don't violate it.  For example, the "with"
statement introduced the obvious way to handle resources.  The "if-else"
expression introduced the obvious way to express conditionals. Etc.

Georg

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