Wow. What an amazingly helpful list. Thanks! Apologies for not fixing the
subject. I was actually kicking myself right after I hit send for not
personalizing that. I really like the options Tim has given me. I suppose I
will try them out and see which one is most efficient for my application.
Right now, I'm leaning towards the nums = [1, 3, (5,10), 18, 78] option.
This is what I will be trying out:
nums = [1, 3, (5,10), 18, 78]
for item in nums:
if isinstance(item,tuple): #Thanks Paul
numHit = (newNum >= item[0]) and (newNum <= item[1])
else:
numHit = newNum == item
-Michael
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to Python. Been poking at it for about a month now. I am trying to
> set up a list for information on people.
> For example:
> person 0's name = "Sam". li[0][0]
> person 0's hoppy = "skateboarding" li[0][1]
> person 0's favorite color = ["green", "red"] li[0][2] # it appears i can
> put another list inside of the list, ie li[0][2]=[x,y,z] very cool! we
> couldn't do that in my grandpa languages. Would that be done with a
> li[0].append(['green','red']) after I'm done defining li[0][1]?? Then, I
> could just do a li[0][2].extend(['purple','mauve']) if more colors were
> ever needed?
> person 0's favorite numbers = [1, 3, 5-10, 78] li[0][3] # ranges of
> numbers?
> person 1's name = "Mary" li[1][0]
> etc..
>
> My thought if there's not already an elegant solution in Python is to
> create a flag 'r' before ranges. So, the example here would become
> [1,3,'r',5,10,18,78]. Then I just do a > < query to find a match. How does
> that sound?
> newNum = 8
> numHit = False
> for i in range(len(li[x][3])):
> if li[x][3][i] == 'r':
> if li[x][3][i+1] < newNum > li[x][3][i+2]: # I didn't do <= and >=
> because the = parts will be evaluated in the next 2 iterations of the loop
> numHit == True
> else:
> if newNum == li[x][3][i]:
> numHit == True
> if numHit:
> print "You picked one of " + li[x][0] + "'s lucky numbers!"
>
> How does that look? Is that ~ the best way to address my problem?
>
> Thanks!
> Michael
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> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:20:28 -0800
> From: Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com>
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> In the future, I'd like to suggest that you choose a genuine subject
> line when you post. It makes people more inclined to read your messages.
>
>
> Michael Wilson wrote:
> >
> > My thought if there's not already an elegant solution in Python is to
> > create a flag 'r' before ranges. So, the example here would become
> > [1,3,'r',5,10,18,78]. Then I just do a > < query to find a match. How
> > does that sound?
>
> I can think of several approaches. For a range, you could add a
> two-tuple instead of an integer:
> nums = [1, 3, (5,10), 18, 78]
> You can tell the difference at runtime:
> for item in nums:
> if type(item) == tuple:
> numHit = (newNum >= item[0]) and (newNum <= item[1])
> else:
> numHit = newNum == item
>
> To eliminate the special case, you could embed ALL of the numbers as
> ranges of size one:
> nums = [ (1,1), (3,3), (5,10), (18,18), (78,78) ]
>
> Or, unless you plan to allow numbers in the millions, just add the whole
> range to the list individually:
> nums = [1, 3]
> nums.extend( range(5,10+1) )
> nums.append( 18 )
> nums.append( 78 )
>
>
> > for i in range(len(li[x][3])):
>
> Almost always, when you write a for loop with range(len(xxx)), you can
> do the same thing without them:
> for i in li[x][3]:
> If you really do need the index, you can do:
> for index, i in enumerate(li[x][3]):
>
> --
> Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
> Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 21:23:56 +0000
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> On Nov 30, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Tim Roberts wrote:
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> > In the future, I'd like to suggest that you choose a genuine subject
> > line when you post. It makes people more inclined to read your messages.
> >
> >
> > Michael Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >> My thought if there's not already an elegant solution in Python is to
> >> create a flag 'r' before ranges. So, the example here would become
> >> [1,3,'r',5,10,18,78]. Then I just do a > < query to find a match. How
> >> does that sound?
> >
> > I can think of several approaches. For a range, you could add a
> > two-tuple instead of an integer:
> > nums = [1, 3, (5,10), 18, 78]
> > You can tell the difference at runtime:
> > for item in nums:
> > if type(item) == tuple:
>
> Nit: the Pythonic recommended way of doing this is "if isinstance (item,
> tuple):"
>
> The difference is that this will also work if item is an instance of a
> subclass of "tuple" while the original code does not handle that case. For
> this code, that might not be an interesting scenario, but in other places
> it might be. It's worth getting into the habit of using "isinstance".
>
> paul
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:27:24 -0800
> From: Tim Roberts <t...@probo.com>
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> paul_kon...@dell.com wrote:
> >
> > Nit: the Pythonic recommended way of doing this is "if isinstance (item,
> tuple):"
> >
> > The difference is that this will also work if item is an instance of a
> subclass of "tuple" while the original code does not handle that case. For
> this code, that might not be an interesting scenario, but in other places
> it might be. It's worth getting into the habit of using "isinstance".
>
> Well said. I have several bad Python habits that I should work on
> eliminating...
>
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> Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com
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