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r76886 | georg.brandl | 2009-12-19 18:43:33 +0100 (Sa, 19 Dez 2009) | 1 line
#7493: review of Design FAQ by Florent Xicluna.
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diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst
index c5af2fd..9ec6cad 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/design.rst
+++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst
@@ -234,8 +234,10 @@
.. XXX talk about protocols?
-Note that for string operations Python has moved from external functions (the
-``string`` module) to methods. However, ``len()`` is still a function.
+.. note::
+
+ For string operations, Python has moved from external functions (the
+ ``string`` module) to methods. However, ``len()`` is still a function.
Why is join() a string method instead of a list or tuple method?
@@ -306,14 +308,15 @@
This only made sense when you expected the dict to have the key almost all the
time. If that wasn't the case, you coded it like this::
- if dict.has_key(key):
+ if key in dict(key):
value = dict[key]
else:
dict[key] = getvalue(key)
value = dict[key]
-(In Python 2.0 and higher, you can code this as ``value = dict.setdefault(key,
-getvalue(key))``.)
+For this specific case, you could also use ``value = dict.setdefault(key,
+getvalue(key))``, but only if the ``getvalue()`` call is cheap enough because it
+is evaluated in all cases.
Why isn't there a switch or case statement in Python?
@@ -750,7 +753,7 @@
# Callers will never provide a third parameter for this function.
def expensive (arg1, arg2, _cache={}):
- if _cache.has_key((arg1, arg2)):
+ if (arg1, arg2) in _cache:
return _cache[(arg1, arg2)]
# Calculate the value