Albert van der Horst <alb...@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote: > Old hands would have ... > stamp =( weight>=1000 and 120 or > weight>=500 and 100 or > weight>=250 and 80 or > weight>=100 and 60 or > 44 ) > > (Kind of a brain twister, I think, inferior to C, once the c-construct > is accepted as idiomatic.)
I doubt many old hands would try to join multiple and/or operators that way. Most old hands would (IMHO) write the if statements out in full, though some might remember that Python comes 'batteries included': from bisect import bisect WEIGHTS = [100, 250, 500, 1000] STAMPS = [44, 60, 80, 100, 120] ... stamp = STAMPS[bisect(WEIGHTS,weight)] >>> map(lambda weight: STAMPS[bisect(WEIGHTS, weight)], [20, 100, 150, 999, 1000, 1100]) [44, 60, 60, 100, 120, 120] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
