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Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix

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On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> wrote:
> it seems there's a) no case statement (WTF?) and b) I'm limited to how many elif statements I can use.

The latter isn't true; and you're not using elif anyway. With no case
statement, you get pushed to other, better ways of doing things, like
the much simpler way I showed in my previous email - it uses set
membership rather than a series of individual equality checks. Faster,
cleaner, much easier to work with.

ChrisA

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Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 21:19 -0700
  Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 14:28 +1000
    Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 21:39 -0700
      Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 14:45 +1000
        Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Jordan Bayless <jmbayless@gmail.com> - 2016-07-21 22:26 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-21 23:03 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 16:34 +1000
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-22 16:37 +1000
            Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix thilfigr16@gmail.com - 2016-07-22 06:00 -0700
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 08:45 -0700
      Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 01:18 -0400
        Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-07-22 16:08 +1000
          Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix Michael Selik <michael.selik@gmail.com> - 2016-07-22 18:53 +0000
  Re: Stupid question, just need a quick and dirty fix MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-07-22 15:58 +0100

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