On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> On 24/10/12 17:27, Saad Javed wrote:
>
>> a = [['jimmy', '25', 'pancakes'], ['tom', '23', 'brownies'], ['harry',
>> '21', 'cookies']]
>
>
>> for i in a:
I would change this (which works but I think is simpler
>> if (i[1] == '25' or i[1] == '26'):
like this
if i[1] in ('25', '26'):
>> print 'yes'
>> else:
>> print 'Not found'
>>
>
>> I want it to print "yes" for each positive match but nothing for a
>> negative match.
>
>
> So far so good.
>
>
>> However if all matches are negative, I want it to print
>> "Not found" once (That bit the code already does).
>
>
> Only by accident, as you've seen it always prints that if the loop
> completes. You need to keep a record of any matches and test for that after
> the loop:
>
> matched = False
> for i in a:
> if ....
> print 'yes'
> matched = True
>
> if not matched:
> print 'Not found'
>
> I confess I'm not keen on the else part of a for loop and never use it, I
> think it leads to more confusion than anything. It doesn't do what most
> folks seem to expect, it should probably be called 'end' or something
> similar rather than 'else' IMHO.
>
>>>> for n in range(5):
> ... print n,
> ... else:
> ... print 'done!'
> ...
> 0 1 2 3 4 done!
>>>> for n in range(5):
> ... if n < 3: print n,
> ... else: break
> ... else: print 'done!'
> ...
> 0 1 2
>>>>
>
>
> HTH
>
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