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Frank Cui wrote:

> hey guys,
> I have a requirement where I need to sequentially execute a bunch of
> executions, each execution has a return code. the followed executions
> should only be executed if the return code is 0. is there a cleaner or
> more pythonic way to do this other than the following ?
> if a() == 0:    if b() == 0:        c()
> Thanks for your input.
> frank

funcs = a, b, c

# option 1
for f in funcs:
    if f():
        break

# option 2
any(f() for f in funcs)