Comments on: Pythonic means idiomatic and tasteful

By: Andrew Taumoefolau

Andrew Taumoefolau — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:44:51 +0000

It’s worth noting that the least Pythonic code example posted is in fact the fastest. It hurts, but sometimes it pays to leave well enough alone.

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:15:13 +0000

Sometimes it takes time to come up with elegant solutions, but in a real world environment with deadlines, the “ugly” solution gets the job done, and that’s enuff.

By: lzs

lzs — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:47:21 +0000

yet another function version:

def encode_dict_items(dic, encoding=’utf8′, errors=’ignore’):
return dict((k, v.encode(encoding, errors)) for k, v in dic.items())

By: lzs

lzs — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:39:57 +0000

I’ll write something like this:

class Dict(dict):
def __setitem__(self, key, value):
super(Dict, self).__setitem__(key, value.encode(‘utf8′, ‘ignore’))

By: tm

tm — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:27:20 +0000

or how about implementing __iter__, so you can run dict on the item:

def __iter__(self): return iter([(key, item[key].encode(“utf-8″, “ignore”)) for key in (“title”, “summary”)])

By: tm

tm — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:17:46 +0000

unless i’m missing something:

def encode_news_item(item):
return dict([(key, item[key].encode(“utf-8″, “ignore”)) for key in (“title”, “summary”)])