From 7be3e189019e42d59ec3db0884413113065ba3de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ezio Melotti Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 07:36:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Cleanup a few minor things. --- Doc/faq/design.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/faq/design.rst b/Doc/faq/design.rst index 25c72db89b7..a8315f9c4a8 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/design.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/design.rst @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ The major reason is history. Functions were used for those operations that were generic for a group of types and which were intended to work even for objects that didn't have methods at all (e.g. tuples). It is also convenient to have a function that can readily be applied to an amorphous collection of objects when -you use the functional features of Python (``map()``, ``apply()`` et al). +you use the functional features of Python (``map()``, ``zip()`` et al). In fact, implementing ``len()``, ``max()``, ``min()`` as a built-in function is actually less code than implementing them as methods for each type. One can @@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ of each call to the function, and return the cached value if the same value is requested again. This is called "memoizing", and can be implemented like this:: # Callers will never provide a third parameter for this function. - def expensive (arg1, arg2, _cache={}): + def expensive(arg1, arg2, _cache={}): if (arg1, arg2) in _cache: return _cache[(arg1, arg2)] @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ languages. For example:: try: ... - if (condition): raise label() # goto label + if condition: raise label() # goto label ... except label: # where to goto pass