Alexandre Zani wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
Alexandre Zani wrote:
What you want to write is this:
elif name == "John Cleese" or name == "Michael Palin":
elif name in ("John Cleese", "Michael Palin"):
is better.
Better how?
It's shorter, you don't have to repeat the reference to `name` twice, it is
more easily extensible if you add additional names, and it is likely to be a
*tiny* bit faster -- it moves the equality test out of pure-Python code into a
tuple method, which will be written in C.
--
Steven
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