dgan a year ago

Not the parent, but i return heterogeneous lists of the same length to the excel to be used by xlwings. The first row being the headers, but every row below is obviously heterogeneous

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slightwinder a year ago

To quote the Zen of Python:

    Explicit is better than implicit.
    Readability counts.
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  • ErikBjare a year ago

    How does that apply in this case?

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    • slightwinder a year ago

      "return key, value" is implicit. While "return [key, value]" is explicitly telling the full return-value. And it's (for me) more readable than "return (key, value)".

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      • Nab443 a year ago

        I don't see how "return (key, value)" is less readable than it's list counterpart. Now, why using a list that can grow, and so takes more space and maybe less efficient, for something that should not?

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        • slightwinder a year ago

          "return (key, value)" can be read as a function-call. Especially as space after the function-name is allowed in python. And performance on that level is no serious topic in python anyway. But this is mainly just a personal preference.

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      • ghxst a year ago

        A list and tuple are not the same thing. There could be reasons to require a list explicitly but I couldn't really think of any obvious ones which is why I asked.

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