How Do I...?

[Victor Subervi]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com>wrote:

> Victor Subervi wrote:
>
>> How do I...?
>>
>
> Well, you start by reading a book on how to program.  You would then learn
> that what you want (in all likelihood) is a dictionary/map structure for
> dynamically created key/value pairs. Once you have progressed from your
> current apprenticeship and achieved the rank of third-degree journeyman
> programmer, the ways of dynamic variable creation will avail themselves.


Why the arrogance? Why talk down to me?

>
> As stated above, you want a dictionary where your keys are
>
>  'optionNo%d' % i
>
> and your values are "i".  You can also use the more idiomatic
>
>  for i, option in enumerate(ourOptions()):
>    ...
>
> and skip the manual initialization and incrementation of "i".  Or even more
> succinctly, you could pass the above as a generator to the dict()
> initialization.  But that's a level-2 apprentice bit of code.  Patience
> grasshopper.
>

Why the arrogance?

>
> And as additional weirdness, you don't actually make use of "option" in
> your for-loop...
>

The variable was tied to another set of variables that iterated through the
options. Why be so judgmental? I appreciate your advice, after having
filtered out the attitude.
V
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