Sorry. *blush* That was some late Friday night craziness. I just
looked at the code being discussed:
retList=[word[pos]+item for item in permute3(word[0:pos]+word[pos+1:])]
And really didn't want to anybody to confuse that with Python's idea
of elegance.
List comprehensions can get pretty hor
> > I agree. When writing for keeps (i.e. production code) I prefer
> > clarity and ease of maintenance over 'elegance' or 'trickiness'.
> > This exercise is intended, in part, to sharpen my understanding of
> > Python idioms. If I can write highly idiomatic code that works,
> > chances are bett
Since when is elegance a dirty word?
Elegance is the soul of good programming. A simple and graceful
solution to the widest number of cases, efficient and easy to
understand in application. Sometimes subtle, but always beautiful.
In language design, software architecture, algorithms, it is the
Kent Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>PS Don't get too crazy about eliminating intermediate variables, they can
>>make the code more readable.
>>
>>Kent
I agree. When writing for keeps (i.e. production code) I prefer clarity and
ease of maintenance over 'elegance' or 'trickiness'. This
