On 12/19/2009 4:33 AM, seafoid wrote:
Thanks for that Lie.
I had to have a think about what you meant when you referred to control
going to a.write(line).
and if-elif-elif-... chain is executed sequentially and when a match is
found, the rest of the chain is skipped. Your code:
if line.startswith("0"):
# BLOCK 1 #
elif line.endswith("0"):
# BLOCK 2 #
elif line.startswith("0"):
# BLOCK 3 #
BLOCK 3 never gets executed, since if line.startswith("0") is true, your
BLOCK 1 is executed and the rest of the if-elif chain is skipped.
Have you any suggestions how I may render this code undead or should I scrap
it and create something new?
I still don't get what you want to do with the code, but to make it not
dead you can either:
for line in blah:
if line.startswith("0"):
a.write(line)
lists_b = line.strip().split()
print lists_b
elif line.endswith("0"):
lists_a = line.strip().split()
print lists_a
or this:
for line in blah:
if line.startswith("0"):
a.write(line)
if line.endswith("0"):
lists_a = line.strip().split()
print lists_a
elif line.startswith("0"):
lists_b = line.strip().split()
print lists_b
depending on which one seems more readable to you.
My confusion and ineptitude is perhaps explained by my being a biologist :-(
Thanks,
Seafoid.
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