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From: Mild Shock <janburse@fastmail.fm>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Two aces up Python's sleeve
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:27:37 +0100
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Then please explain why I have to write:

    i += 1

Instead of the shorter:

    i ++

My short-term memory is really stressed.

Stefan Ram schrieb:
> ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>> last_item = my_list[ -1 ]
>> Way cleaner than my_list[ len( my_list )- 1 ], don't you think?
> 
>    In "The Mental Game of Python," Raymond Hettinger spills the
>    beans about our noggins only being able to juggle 7 +/- 2
>    things in our short-term memory.
> 
>    So, "last_item = my_list[ -1 ]" might still make the cut,
>    while "my_list[ len( my_list)- 1 ]" could be biting off
>    more than we can chew.
> 
> |The problem is, the number of brain registers this uses is
> |10. This is no longer a decryption effort. This is a puzzle.
> |At the moment you put it together, you fully understand it.
> |But if this is embedded in bigger code, every time you hit
> |this line, you're going to have to pick apart "what does this
> |thing do?".
> Raymond Hettinger
> 
>