On Wednesday, October 2, 2013 4:31:03 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 8:44 PM, JonDoe297 wrote:
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> > Is there any way to make it smaller? It does it's job, but I want it to
> > look smaller, more efficient.
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> Yes, it is, but let me first clarify something: "Smaller" and "more
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> efficient" are two quite different concepts. Efficiency doesn't matter
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> to your code here, so what you're looking for is smaller, clearer
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> code. Which is a good thing to be doing :)
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> At top level, the 'global' declaration doesn't do anything. You may as
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> well not bother with it.
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> If you change your recursive main() function into a while loop, you'll
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> be able to combine all your common code very easily. I won't do the
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> whole job for you, but consider this structure:
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> repeat=1
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> while repeat==1:
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> # get inputs
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> # calculate and produce output
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> repeat=int(raw_input("Do you want to do more? "))
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> And if you need your error state to have a different prompt, you can
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> use 'continue' to skip the bottom of the loop.
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> Hope that helps!
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> ChrisA
Thanks a lot again Chris! You understood what I couldn't convey, perfectly!
I'll use your suggestions ;)
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