On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > It refers to the guideline that you shouldn't have a single function > with two (or more) different behaviour and an argument that does > nothing but select between them.
In particular, when that argument is almost never given a variable value, but is specified using a constant at the call site. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at gmail.com> "A storm broke loose in my mind." --Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
