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Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please

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On 02/28/2013 02:47 PM, The Night Tripper wrote:
> Hi there
 > I'm being very dumb ... how can I simplify this fragment?
 >
 >
 > if arglist:
 > arglist.pop(0)
 > if arglist:
 > self.myparm1 = arglist.pop(0)
 > if arglist:
 > self.myparm2 = arglist.pop(0)
 > if arglist:
 > self.myparm3 = arglist.pop(0)
 > if arglist:
 > self.parm4 = arglist.pop(0)
 > # ...
 >
 > Thanks
 > J^n
 >
 >


I often use this convenience function:

def getitem(seq, index, default=None):
"""Get item from an `seq` at `index`, return default if index out of 
range."""
try : return seq[index]
except IndexError : return default


If you're ok with setting myparm values to default None, you can do:

self.myparm1, self.myparm2, self.myparm3, self.myparm4 = \
(getitem(arglist, n) for n in range(4))


If you only want to set them when they are in arglist:

for n in range(4):
val = getitem(arglist, n)
if val is not None:
setattr(self, "myparm%d" % (n+1), val)

-m



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suggestions for improving code fragment please The Night Tripper <jkn+gg@nicorp.co.uk> - 2013-02-28 19:47 +0000
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 11:55 -0800
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 14:56 -0500
    Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please The Night Tripper <jkn+gg@nicorp.co.uk> - 2013-02-28 23:20 +0000
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-02-28 12:58 -0700
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-02-28 14:37 -0600
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-02-28 21:13 +0000
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-02-28 16:22 -0500
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-28 16:28 -0500
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-02-28 16:30 -0500
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2013-02-28 16:44 -0600
  Re: suggestions for improving code fragment please Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-01 02:44 +0000

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