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Style question: Nicknames for deeply nested objects

Stephen Hansen me+list/python at ixokai.io
Sun Jan 30 21:53:03 EST 2011 
On 1/30/11 1:13 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jan 30, 12:53 pm, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt... at ixokai.io> wrote:
>> OH MY GOD. How can someone be expected to understand what a function does!
> 
> Yes, and also how decorators word and generators work, and ...
> 
>> Be serious! You can't expect that of them.
> 
> I don't. I don't expect anyone to write 10 lines of obfuscation code
> when just two will suffice. Maybe you should join the perl group as
> they would proud!

Riiight.

"suffice" doesn't mean what you think it means. Generally, if something
suffices -- it actually, you know, ... works.

My four lines of setup can get put into a library and treated as a
recipe if they don't want to get into understanding generators or
decorators: then its two lines to use, and those two lines are exactly
like your two lines except for two little details:

  1. They add a function call to the syntax.
  2. They actually work.

The OP doesn't have to understand decorators or generators if he doesn't
want to: though I encourage him to do so, as they are beautiful and
elegant tools that can very clearly and concisely help solve a lot of
problems.

Now, me? I wouldn't use the recipe, as I originally said in my response.
I'd just use a local variable. But the OP didn't like that, and he
wanted some indenting and whitespace to clearly demarcate where he
intended to use the local. So I gave him a way to do that.

You gave him... uh, what was it again?

Oh, right.

Nothing.

As usual.

-- 

   Stephen Hansen
   ... Also: Ixokai
   ... Mail: me+list/python (AT) ixokai (DOT) io
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