MonkeeSage wrote:
> In Libs/site.py, lines 302-306:
>> try:
> for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES):
> print self.__lines[i]
> except IndexError:
> break
>> With my proposal, that could be written as:
>> for i in range(lineno, lineno + self.MAXLINES):
> if self.__lines.has_index(i):
> print self.__lines[i]
> else:
> break
>> Granted, in this particular case the amount of code is not reduced, but
> (and I would hope you'd agree) the control flow is certainly easier to
> follow.
so to "improve" a piece of code that's been optimized for the common
case, you're adding an extra method call and a test to the inner loop?
and this because you think Python programmers don't understand try-
except statements ?
I think we can all safely ignore you now.
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