erik gartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The loop performs some actions with web services. The particular
> iteration I'm on isn't important to me. It is only important that I
> attempt the web services that number of times. If I succeed I
> obviously break out of the loop and the containing function (the
> function which has the loop in it) returns True. If all attempts fail
> the containing loop returns False.
This uses an index var, but doesn't leak it outside the genexp, so
I don't know what pylint would say (untested):
def f():
return any(attempt_service() for i in xrange(10))
I think the above is pretty natural. If you really insist on not
using any variables, the below might work (untested):
from itertools import imap, repeat
def f():
return any(imap(apply, repeat(attempt_service, 10)))
it just seems way too obscure though. Python style seems to favor
spewing extra variables around.
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