Every time I see people using printf to generate structured data formats, a part of me dies inside.
Here's how I would do it, using libgit2 and proper JSON output: https://gist.github.com/m1el/42472327b4be382b02eb
Here's how I would do it, using libgit2 and proper JSON output: https://gist.github.com/m1el/42472327b4be382b02eb
collection = []
for i in data:
collection.append(fn(i))
[fn(i) for i in data] ? map(fn, data)
?List comprehensions are the very recommended strategy for constructing python lists, not to mention they're simply a fantastic language feature. Very direct, readable, and hard to get wrong.
Python loses out a lot on it's functional sorts of functions (filter, map) because you can't use method chaining on a list for them, imo
However, in this particular case, IMO, it would make things worse because I would have to write a multi-line list comprehension. Multi-line list comprehensions have bad readability. The object literal is too big to be included in list comprehension.
I could move commit->object conversion to a function, but then I would have used map. And it would have created one more indirection.
The current state is my deliberate choice.