List mapping?

[Mike Fletcher]

Oh, how would I actually do the work of parsing command lines?  Probably use
the getopt module :) 

Enjoy,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Trout [mailto:nick at spam_me_notvideosystem.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:02 AM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: List mapping?


I came up with something similar:

    processfn = { 'del':deletefiles }
    comm = None
    flist = []
    fileopts = sys.argv[2:]
    while fileopts:
        if fileopts[0]=='/c':
            comm = fileopts[1]
            fileopts = fileopts[2:]
        elif fileopts[0]=='/d':
            fdir = fileopts[1]
            ext = fileopts[2]
            fileopts = fileopts[3:]
            flist.extend( readdir(fdir,ext) )
        else:
            raise "Unknown flag:",fileopts[0]
    processfn[comm](flist)

There are obviously a lot of ways to do this in Python, the most elegant way
doesnt always seem obvious at first! Just wondered how others would approach
this problem.

Cheers,
Nick.


"Mike Fletcher" <mfletch at tpresence.com> wrote in message
news:CC59868A0A76D311B1F50090277B321C1F326A at VRTMAIL...
> not elegant, but here's another way...
>
> original = string.split( x, ' ')
> result = []
> while original:
> result.append( tuple(original[:2]) )
> del original[:2]
>
> and another...
>
> original = string.split( x, ' ')
> result = []
> for x in range(0, len(original), 2 ):
> result.append( tuple( original[x:x+2]))
>
> HTH,
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Trout [mailto:nick at spam_me_notvideosystem.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 10:10 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: List mapping?
>
>
> Is there a nice way of pairing up the members to form tuple pairs in
another
> list? ie. like you might to processing input args.
>
> ie. changing ['/a','1','/b','2','/c','3'] into [ ('/a','1'), ('/b','2'),
> ('/c','3') ]
>
> eg:
>
> args = '/a 1 /b 2 /c 3'
> listargs= string.split(args)
> tuplist = []
> i=0
> while i < len(listargs):
>     tuplist.append( (listargs[i],listargs[i+1]) )
>     i = i+2
> for i in tuplist:
>     processargs(i)
>
> or:
>
> args = '/a 1 /b 2 /c 3'
> for i in string.split(args):
>     i = argflag
>     # i want next arg now as a parameter!!!
>
> Can I (you!) get rid of the long winded while loop cleverly?!!  :-)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nick.
>
>
>
>
>
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