[Tutor] Why isn't my simple if elif script not working?

[Alexandre Zani]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Alexandre Zani wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:09 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Alexandre Zani wrote:
>>>
>>>> What you want to write is this:
>>>>
>>>> elif name == "John Cleese" or name == "Michael Palin":
>>>
>>>
>>> elif name in ("John Cleese", "Michael Palin"):
>>>
>>> is better.
>
>
>> Better how?
>
>
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> It's shorter, you don't have to repeat the reference to `name` twice, it is
> more easily extensible if you add additional names, and it is likely to be a
> *tiny* bit faster -- it moves the equality test out of pure-Python code into
> a tuple method, which will be written in C.
>

Wadayano... You're right, it is faster!

Thanks.


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