Lars Johansen a écrit : > I have a function that looks like this: > > def Chooser(color):
<mode="pedant"> Bad naming (noun instead of a verb) and not conformant to PEP 08 (function names should be all_lower) </mode> > if color == "RED": > x = term.RED > elif color == "BLUE": > x = term.BLUE > elif color == "GREEN": > x = term.GREEN > elif color == "YELLOW": > x = term.YELLOW > elif color == "CYAN": > x = term.CYAN > elif color == "MAGENTA": > x = term.MAGENTA > return x What do you think will happen if I call it like this: Chooser(42) (if you answered 'will raise a NameError', then you're correct). > > Wouldn there been easier if I could just skip all the "*if's" and just > "return term.color", however this gives a syntax error, are there any > clever way to do this ? getattr(obj, name) is your friend. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list