On 21/03/2016 01:15, BartC wrote:
On 15/03/2016 00:25, BartC wrote:
> On 14/03/2016 23:24, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Try this instead:
>>
>> c = chr(c)
>> if 'A' <= c <= 'Z':
>> upper += 1
>> elif 'a' <= c <= 'z':
>> lower += 1
>> elif '0' <= c <= '9':
>> digits += 1
>> else:
>> other += 1
>>
>> But even better:
>>
>> if c.isupper():
>> upper += 1
>> elif c islower():
>> lower += 1
>> elif c.isdigit():
>> digits += 1
>> else:
>> other += 1
>>
>> which will work correctly for non-ASCII characters as well.
>
> Yes, but now you've destroyed my example!
>
> A more realistic use of switch is shown below [not Python].
A tokeniser along those lines in Python, with most of the bits filled
in, is here:
http://pastebin.com/dtM8WnFZ
I got to line 22, saw the bare except, and promptly gave up.
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