concise code (beginner)

[James Stroud]

bambam wrote:
> I have about 30 pages (10 * 3 pages each) of code like this
> (following). Can anyone suggest a more compact way to
> code the exception handling? If there is an exception, I need
> to continue the loop, and continue the list.
> 
> Steve.
> 
> -----------------------------------
> for dev in devs
>     try:
>         dev.read1()
>     except
>         print exception
>         remove dev from devs
> 
> for dev in devs
>     try:
>         dev.read2()
[etc.]

My keen sense of pattern recognition tells me that all of your read's 
follow the same naming pattern--or was that just an accidental naming 
coincidence on your part for the sake of example?


for i in xrange(number_of_reads):
   for dev in devs:
     try:
       _reader = getattr(dev, 'read%d' % i)
       _reader()
     except Exception, e:
       print e
       devs.remove(dev)

James

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