Martin wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to set the return value from a function to a name which I
grab from the for loop. I can't work out how I can do this without
using an if statement...
for f in var1_fn, var2_fn, var3_fn:
if f.split('.')[0] == 'var1':
var1 = call_some_function(f)
.
.
.
etc
Really I would like to remove the need for this if loop and I am sure
there is a simple way I am missing?
Many thanks
Martin
Is this a real problem, or is it a "programming puzzle"? If it's the
latter, maybe someone else can help.
But if it's a real problem, give us some context, and maybe we can
figure out how to help.
If I took this fragment at face value, I'd simply replace it by:
var1 = call_some_function(var1_fn)
var2 = call_some_function(var2_fn)
var3 = call_some_function(var3_fn)
Is this fragment part of a function definition, or is it top-level? Are
there really exactly three var*_fn objects, or might there be an
arbitrary number of them? Do you want to tell us the types of these
three objects? Is there content really tied directly to their name?
Did they get their values from literals, or were they computed at some
other point?
DaveA
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