[Python-Dev] Idea - place to put string functions and consts (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 16:11:53 -0500

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

>> COMMA.join(['spam', 'eggs']) GvR> This I've never liked. >> commajoin(['spam', 'eggs']) GvR> But this one's sweet! Ah, so is it the uppercase letters or the dot you dislike ?

Maybe that, maybe the bother of defining a name for a simple constant; it's not like you plan to ever change the program to give COMMA a different value. But comma_join is sweet because it removes a constant evaluation from a loop (if the join occurs in a loop).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)