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by jksmith 6132 days ago
Please, for the love of conciseness, never assign a boolean based on an if statement.
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dmoho 6132 days ago
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?
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jksmith 6132 days ago
Even then, I'd rather see:

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

if DEBUG then...

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rbanffy 6132 days ago
It's not
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aichcon 6132 days ago
How would you rewrite it?
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jpeterson 6132 days ago 

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