How best to write this if-else?

[Mike C. Fletcher]

You can actually just use:

def meaningful_name_1( text ):
	...

re_dispatch = [
	(re.compile(blah), meaningful_name_1 ),
	(re.compile(blah2), meaningful_name_2 ),
	...
]
for re, func in re_dispatch:
	...

Instead of the dictionary.

Enjoy,
Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Wolfson [mailto:wolfson at uchicago.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 17:28
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: How best to write this if-else?


In article <roy-D0E658.17013521042001 at news.panix.com>, "Roy Smith"
<roy at panix.com> wrote:

> What if I want to execute different code depending on which expression I
> matched?  Something along the lines of (pseudocode):
...
def meaningful_name_1(matchobject):
   do_complicated_processing(matchobject.group(1))
def meaningful_name_2(matchobject): ...etc

re_dispatch = {re.compile(blah):meaningful_name_1,
               re.compile(durh):meaningful_name_2
               ..etc
              }
for re, func in re_dispatch.items():
...