slogging_away wrote: > Hi - I'm running Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 > 32 bit (Intel)] on win32, and have a script that makes numerous checks > on text files, (configuration files), so discrepancies can be reported. > The script works fine but it appears that I may have hit a wall with > 'if' statements. > > Due to the number of checks perfromed by the script on the text files, > (over 500), there are quite a few 'if' statements in the script, (over > 1150). It seems that it is at the point that when I add any additional > 'if' statements the script will not run. No error is produced - it > just returns to the python prompt much the same as when a successful > 'Check Module' command is selected. If I delete some other 'if' > statements the new ones work so it appears that it has hit a limit on > the number of 'if' statements. This has stunted any further checks for > the script to make on the text files. > > Hs anyone ever run into this sort of thing? >
Nope - but I never saw any code block with 1150+ tests in it neither :-/ Smells like a design problem anyway. Have you considered refactoring your code ? -- bruno desthuilliers python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for p in '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'.split('@')])" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list