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Re: RPI.GPIO Help

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On 2015-09-11 19:24, John McKenzie wrote:
>
>   Hello.
>
>   Thanks to the help of people here and in other newsgroups I seem to have
> something working doing the basics. (Buttons work, colours light up
> appropriately.)
>
>   When I followed MRAB's instructions and read about scopes of variables
> that solved my most recent problem, but it introduced a bug. I think I
> fixed the bug but after all my stupid mistakes and forgetfulness that
> seems too good to be true. I expect there is a better, more elegant, or
> more Pythonic way to do what I did so please feel free to share on the
> subject.
>
>   I had a problem where if I pressed a button while the LEDs were already
> flashing the colour of that button it would block a new colour from
> starting when I pressed a new button. So if the LED strip was red and I
> pressed the red button again nothing would happen when I pressed the blue
> or yellow button. Similar problem for the other two buttons.
>
>   So inside my callbacks I added this code:
>
>     if colour == 1:
>          pass
>      elif colour == 2 or 3:
>          colour = 1
>
>
>   Now it seems OK from my limited testing.
>
[snip]

"colour == 2 or 3" means the same as "(colour == 2) or 3", where 3 is a
true value (zero is a false value; any non-zero number is a true value).

What you mean is "colour == 2 or colour == 3".

A shorter alternative is "colour in (2, 3)".

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RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-08-16 19:40 +0000
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-08-16 21:15 +0100
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-08-20 15:12 +0000
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-08-20 16:45 +0100
        Re: RPI.GPIO Help alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-08-20 15:54 +0000
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-20 21:27 -0400
        Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-08-28 17:40 +0000
          Re: RPI.GPIO Help hakugin.gin@gmail.com - 2015-08-28 13:56 -0700
          Re: RPI.GPIO Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-08-29 14:21 -0400
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-08-31 17:41 +0000
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help hakugin.gin@gmail.com - 2015-08-31 11:25 -0700
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-08-31 19:34 +0100
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2015-09-01 10:58 +0200
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help Tim Daneliuk <tundra@bogus-city.tundraware.com> - 2015-08-31 14:07 -0500
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-01 02:08 -0400
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-09-02 18:50 +0000
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-09-09 19:03 +0000
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-09-09 20:29 +0100
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-09-10 15:56 +0000
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-09-11 18:24 +0000
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-09-11 19:49 +0100
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help hakugin.gin@gmail.com - 2015-09-11 12:00 -0700
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help hakugin.gin@gmail.com - 2015-09-11 12:24 -0700
      Re: RPI.GPIO Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-11 21:10 -0400
  Re: RPI.GPIO Help John McKenzie <davros@bellaliant.net> - 2015-09-13 06:08 +0000
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-09-13 12:24 -0400
    Re: RPI.GPIO Help hakugin.gin@gmail.com - 2015-09-14 05:53 -0700

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