Checking for keywords in several lists
Heiko Wolf
heiko.wolf at dlr.de
Thu Jan 24 09:29:38 EST 2002
"Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message news:<a2oqpc$77q$1 at serv1.iunet.it>...
>> "Heiko Wolf" <heiko.wolf at dlr.de> wrote in message
>> news:d013da35.0201240248.6b233b95 at posting.google.com...
>> Any other suggestions?
>
> A simple approach might be:
>
> for function, wordlist in (
> dosomething, ('word1', 'word2', 'word3'),
> dosomethingelse, ('word4', 'word5'),
> yetanothercase, ('word6', 'word7', 'word8')):
> if theword in wordlist:
> function()
> break
> else:
> # theword is in none of the lists, do
> # some default action here
> adefaultaction()
>
> where each of dosomething, dosomethingelse, yetanothercase and
> adefaultaction are functions (or other callables) written to
> be called without arguments. Not the NAMES of the functions,
> mind: the function themselves.
>
I tried your approach, but it hit me with a TypeError.
for function, wordlist in (
TypeError: unpack non-sequence
What am I doing wrong?
Cheers, Heiko
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