(Very Newbie) Problems defining a variable
Kirk Strauser
kirk at daycos.com
Fri Dec 12 13:18:40 EST 2008
At 2008-12-12T18:12:39Z, "Tim Rowe" <digitig at gmail.com> writes:
> Is there a tidy way of making rates and thresholds local to get_rate,
> without recalculating each time? I suppose going object oriented is
> the proper way.
>
> #Py3k,UTF-8
>
> rates = {0: 0.006, 10000: 0.0085, 25000: 0.0124, 50000: 0.0149, 100000: 0.0173}
> thresholds = list(rates.keys())
> thresholds.sort()
> thresholds.reverse()
>
> def get_rate(balance):
> for threshold in thresholds:
> if balance >= threshold:
> return rates[threshold]
> else:
> return 0.0
How 'bout:
def get_rate(balance):
for threshold, rate in ((100000, .0173),
(50000, .0149),
(25000, .0124),
(10000, .0085),
(0, .006)):
if balance > threshold:
return rate
return .0
--
Kirk Strauser
The Day Companies
More information about the Python-list
mailing list