Re: Two aces up Python's sleeve

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