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		jksmith on Aug 31, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tips to a new django developer Please, for the love of conciseness, never assign a boolean based on an if statement.

dmoho on Aug 31, 2009 | [–]

What if the assignment to the boolean was only one of the things you wanted to execute based on the result of the if statement?

jksmith on Aug 31, 2009 | | [–]

Even then, I'd rather see:

DEBUG = socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp'

if DEBUG then...

rbanffy on Aug 31, 2009 | | | [–]

It's not

aichcon on Aug 31, 2009 | [–]

How would you rewrite it?

jpeterson on Aug 31, 2009 | [–]

  DEBUG = socket.gethostname() == 'developmentcomp'

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