On Feb 15, 10:24 am, nexes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright so me and my friend are having argument. > > Ok the problem we had been asked a while back, to do a programming > exercise (in college) > That would tell you how many days there are in a month given a > specific month. > > Ok I did my like this (just pseudo): > > If month = 1 or 3 or etc .... > noDays = 31 > Elseif month = 4 or 6 etc .... > noDays = 30 > Else > noDays = 29 > (we didn't have to take into account a leap year) > > He declared an array and assigned the number of days in a month to its > own element in an array. Now > I realise that in this example it would not make a difference in terms > of efficiency, but it is my belief that if > there is more data that needed to be assigned(i.e. a couple megs of > data) it would be simpler (and more efficient) to > do a compare rather then assigning all that data to an array, since > you are only going to be using 1 value and the rest > of the data in the array is useless. > > What are everyone else's thoughts on this?
days_in_month = lambda m: m - 2 and 30 + bool(1 << m & 5546) or 28 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list