if number is 1-2, 4 or 6-8 or 12-28, 30, 32...

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Jun 11 09:50:18 EDT 2002


    Gustaf> Cliff's solution was really fast, but it took a while to
    Gustaf> understand. :)

One thing I frequently forget about is the else: clause for try/except
statements.  This lets you isolate as small a piece of code as possible in
the try: clause, making it a bit easier to understand what triggers the
exception:

    def isin(n, ranges):
        for r in ranges:
            try: 
                s, e = r
            except TypeError:
                if n == r:
                    return 1
            else:
                if s <= n <= e:
                    return 1
        return 0

You could also fold the int case into the tuple case (making it a bit more
uniform), but at a slight cost in performance if you have lots of ints.  In
this case, all the try/except statement is responsible for is setting s and
e:

    def isin(n, ranges):
        for r in ranges:
            try: 
                s, e = r
            except TypeError:
                s, e = n, n
            if s <= n <= e:
                return 1
        return 0

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