+1 for "X not in Y" "not X in Y" reads ambiguously to me. -Dolph On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Ray Pekowski <pekowski at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:23 AM, Zhongyue Luo <zhongyue.nah at intel.com>wrote: > >> Ray, we are only considering in cases when evaluation of membership is >> needed. >> >> The "if not flag" is an boolean evaluation of "flag" itself and has >> nothing to do with dict. >> >> > In that case, I (sarcastically) promote a counter proposal for negating a > dictionary membership check. It must be done in two lines, as follows: > > > flag = key in dict > if not flag: > > The following forms are disallowed due to the desire for conformity: "if > key not in dict" and "if not key in dict". > > Votes? :-) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev at lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/attachments/20130131/4e079595/attachment.html>