At 04:22 PM 11/11/2007, Alan Gauld wrote: >"Dick Moores" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > And if the function is rewritten as def fact(n, full=False, > > precision=15) > > there would be the analogous problem involving full. > > > > Is there a way to solve this problem of the unnecessary setting of > > the 2nd argument? > >The most common solution I've seen is to write wrappers >around the basic function like: > >def fullFact(n, precision=15): > return fact(n,True,precision) > >def precisionFact(n, full=False): > return fact(n, full, 15) > >Not terribly elegant but is at least short and simple.
Alan, I won't adopt this solution for my fact(), but I'm glad to know about it. Thanks, Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
