On Apr 26, 7:31 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 26, 1:58 am, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On 2007-04-25, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > hello,
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> > > As part of a procedure I've a number sequences like this:
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> > ><Python>
> > > if Print_Info: print Datafile.readline()
> > > else: Datafile.readline()
> > ></Python>
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> > > Is there a more compressed way to write such a statement,
> > > especially I dislike the redundancy "Datafile.readline()".
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> > > thanks,
> > > Stef Mientki
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> > You could consider the following
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> > def Print(arg):
> > print arg
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> > def Noop(arg):
> > pass
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> or (untested):
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> if Print_Info:
> def printOrNot(arg):
> print arg
> else:
> def printOrNot(arg):
> pass
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> printOrNot(Datafile.readline())
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> > (Print if Print_Info else Noop) (Datafile.readline())
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> > --
> > Antoon Pardon- Hide quoted text -
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The Enable/Disable decorators on the Python wiki (http://
wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary?highlight=%28decorator
%29#head-8298dbf9ac7325d9ef15e7130e676378bbbda572) help you do
something very similar, without having to replicate the function being
enabled/disabled.
@(disabled,enabled)[Print_Info]
def printOrNot(arg):
print arg
-- Paul
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