Multiway Branching

[rshepard at salmo.appl-ecosys.com]

On 2006-01-08, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

> DATA_MAP = {
>     chr(32)+chr(32): 0,
>     chr(36)+chr(32): "natural",
>     ...
>     chr(32)+chr(1): 5,
>     chr(66)+chr(32): 0.167,
> }
> ...
> row_value = DATA_MAP[source.read(2)]
>
> # or: row_value = DATA_MAP.get(source.read(2), DEFAULT)

  Thank you, Fredrik. That's ideal, and a great lesson for a newcomer to
Python.

Rich

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