Michael Chermside mcherm at destiny.com
Tue Sep 18 10:53:32 EDT 2001

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> What do you think about this idiom?
> 
>>>> a=5; b=2
>>>> c=5*[2,3][a==b]
>>>> c
> 10
>>>> a=2
>>>> c=5*[2,3][a==b]
>>>> c
> 15
> 
> Of course it doesn't solve the PEP problem's:
>>>> def toto(x):
> ...   print "toto"
> ...   return x+1
> ... 
>>>> c=5*[toto(2),toto(3)][a==b]
> toto
> toto
> 
> But for const expressions, do you think it's obfucassed Python?
> 

Yes, actually, I do. It certainly doesn't "say what it means".

-- Michael Chermside

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