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which is more 'pythonic' / 'better' ?

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Pierre Barbier de Reuille wrote:

>>
>>I would actualy use the following for this particular case..
>>
>>text = line[n:n+1] or 'nothing'
> 
> 
> ... and you would get either a list of one element or a string ...
> I think you wanted to write :
> 
> text = (line[n:n+1] or ['nothing'])[0]

I was assuming that 'line' would be a string, not a list. Seems more 
likely give the name and context.

Will McGugan
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