[Tutor] Re: one line code

[Andrei]

Christian Meesters wrote on Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:49:28 +0200:

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> Could it be that a C-like solution with 
> '?' and ':' is more straightforward than a solution with Python or am I 
> just too blind to see a real pythonic solution here?

Pierre did the Python equivalent of the ternary operator in his solution.

> I am aware that putting a solution in one line of code might be against 
> the 'Zen of Python' (... Complex is better than complicated ... 
> Readability counts ...), but since I'm just asking out of curiosity, 
> perhaps I'll get an answer anyway. ;-)

>>> l = ['1','2','3','abc','','4', '9.5', 9]
>>> [(eval(compile('exec """try:t=float("%s")\nexcept:t="%s" """ in globals(),locals()'%(s,s),'','exec')),t)[1] for s in l]
[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 'abc', '', 4.0, 9.5, 9.0]

I would recommend against it though :). Having a special function for this 
purpose is the way to go, a ternary operator doesn't really add anything to 
the quality of the code.

-- 
Yours,

Andrei

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