Victor Subervi wrote:
I set the following variables: # Headers are kept in order to determine nesting of chapters # They are labeled according to font size h36 = '' h26 = '' h22 = '' h18 = '' h14 = '' h12 = '' header_sizes = [36, 26, 22, 18, 14, 12] # Size is the font size of the header size = 0 I write code that grabs the size var. Then I have the following very laborious spaghetti code: if size == 36: h36 = line h26 = '' h22 = '' h18 = '' h14 = '' h12 = '' elif size == 26: h26 = line h22 = '' h18 = '' h14 = '' h12 = '' elif size == 22: h22 = line h18 = '' h14 = '' h12 = '' elif size == 18: h18 = line h14 = '' h12 = '' elif size == 14: h14 = line h12 = '' elif size == 12: h12 = line else: # THROW ERROR!
Multiple elifs indicate a possible use for dicts. Untested possibility header_sizes = [36, 26, 22, 18, 14, 12] header_num = len(header_sizes) header_blank = ['']*header_num # makes resetting headers much easier! header_dexes = dict(zip(header_sizes, range(header_num))) hearders = header_blank[0:] #initialize # You can now change header_sizes length and contents # and others will be built to match .. def adjust_headers(size, line): dex = header_dexes[size] headers[dex] = line headers[dex+1:] = header_blank[dex+1:] Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
