That's kinda what I thought but a couple of people suggested that I used lambdas to make it clearer that I figured I was doing something wrong...
Jeff -----Original Message----- From: Bob Gailer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 9:48 AM To: Smith, Jeff; tutor@python.org Subject: RE: [Tutor] Are you allowed to shoot camels? [kinda OT] At 07:14 AM 2/7/2005, Smith, Jeff wrote: >Alan, > >No use beating this dead horse...I guess that's why there are so many >languages in the first place. Different people are comfortable with >different things. (I did warn you that I like both Lisp and Prolog and >only wish I had more of a reason to use them :-) > >As an aside, I did try to create a lambda based solution but was >unable. Let me know what's wrong: > >ftable = { 'a' : lambda: print 'a', > 'b' : lambda: print 'b or c', > 'c' : lambda: print 'b or c', > 'd' : lambda: pass } >ftable.get(var, lambda: print 'default case')() From the docs: lambda arguments: expression print 'a' is not an expression > File "C:\scratch\Script1.py", line 2 > ftable = { 'a' : lambda: print 'a', > ^ >SyntaxError: invalid syntax Bob Gailer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 303 442 2625 home 720 938 2625 cell _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
