On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:03:02AM -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
Oleg Broytman wrote:
. Pythonic equivalent of "get_clock(THIS) or get_clok(THAT)" is
for flag in (THIS, THAT):
try:
clock = get_clock(flag)
except:
pass
else:
break
else:
raise ValueError('Cannot get clock, tried THIS and THAT')
Wow -- you'd rather write nine lines of code instead of three?
clock = get_clock(THIS) or get_clock(THAT)
if clock is None:
raise ValueError('Cannot get clock, tried THIS and THAT')
Yes - to force people to write the last two lines. Without forcing
most programmers will skip them.