On Friday 09 May 2014 08:01:47 Adrian Klaver wrote: > On 05/09/2014 01:45 AM, Vincent de Phily wrote: > > Before you grow suspicious of that conf_getint, the config is loaded once > > at program startup, and the overlarge results hapen together with normal > > results without having left the loop. Just in case I'm now logging the > > query string anyway; who knows... > > As proof of concept that the value can change in the loop: > > > In [17]: l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] > > In [18]: def getNumber(): > return random.choice(l) > ....: > > In [19]: ct = 0 > > In [20]: while ct < 5: > s = 'Lucky number is %d' % (getNumber(),) > ct += 1 > print s > ....: > Lucky number is 5 > Lucky number is 5 > Lucky number is 4 > Lucky number is 3 > Lucky number is 2 Sure, but that's not what I'm doing at all. My "str" % (somefunc(),) is executed outside the loop, not inside it. This is python, not lisp. The variable "query" is a plain string, not a reference to how that string was created. -- Vincent de Phily
