(a==b) ? 'Yes' : 'No'

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:54:18 +0000, Duncan Booth wrote:

> Albert van der Horst <albert at spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Old hands would have ...
>>     stamp =( weight>=1000 and  120 or
>>              weight>=500  and  100 or
>>              weight>=250  and  80  or
>>              weight>=100  and  60  or
>>                                44  )
>> 
>> (Kind of a brain twister, I think, inferior to C, once the c-construct
>> is accepted as idiomatic.)
> 
> I doubt many old hands would try to join multiple and/or operators that
> way. Most old hands would (IMHO) write the if statements out in full,
> though some might remember that Python comes 'batteries included':
> 
>  from bisect import bisect
>  WEIGHTS = [100, 250, 500, 1000]
>  STAMPS = [44, 60, 80, 100, 120]
> 
>  ...
>  stamp = STAMPS[bisect(WEIGHTS,weight)]


Isn't that an awfully heavyweight and obfuscated solution for choosing 
between five options? Fifty-five options, absolutely, but five?



-- 
Steven