Victor wrote...
># Headers are kept in order to determine nesting of chapters
># They are labeled according to font size
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve (I can't divine it from your
example code), but I suspect that a dictionary of sizes and header texts is
somewhat more manegable than a slew of separate variables h12, h14, h16,
h22, h36 etc...
Maybe this gives an idea:
# this could come from an input file or a parser
source=(
(18,"Hello"),
(36,"Greetings"),
# (11,"Boeh") , # uncomment to test this illegal size
(36,"You too"),
(12,"Bye"),
)
# for each font size, remember the last seen header text
headers={12:"", 14:"", 18:"", 22:"", 26:"", 36:""}
# process the source, collect the header texts
for (size,text) in source:
if not size in headers:
raise KeyError("%d is an illegal size. It must be one of %s" %
(size,sorted(headers)))
headers[size]=text
# do something with the collected header texts
for h in sorted(headers):
print h,headers[h]
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