Bengt Richter wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:16:57 -0500, Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How about something like > > >>> actions = dict( > ... a=compile('print "A"; state="b"','','exec'), > ... b=compile('print "B"; state="c"','','exec'), > ... c=compile('print "C"; state=None','','exec') > ... ) > >>> state = 'a' > >>> while state: eval(actions[state]) > ... > A > B > C Good idea. But we can eliminate the dictionary lookup: a1 = compile('print "A"; state=b1','','exec') b1 = compile('print "B"; state=c1','','exec') c1 = compile('print "C"; state=None','','exec') state = a1 while state: eval(state) Cheers, Carl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list