[Tutor] New to this list ....

[Barry Drake]

On 30/03/12 16:19, Evert Rol wrote:
> Not sure. In the sense that you can "optimise" (refactor) it in the same way you could do with C. Eg:
> results = [0, 0, 0]
> flags = [0, 1, 2, 3]
> for flag in flags:
>      results = getflag(flag, results)
>

That's exactly what I hoped for.  I hadn't realised I can initialise a 
list in one go - it seems that lists work a lot like the arrays I was 
used to in c.  Thanks to the others who took the time to answer.  Just 
now, Asokan's solution is a bit obscure to me - I'll work on that one, 
but the above is lovely and elegant; and easy to understand.  Someone 
asked about the getflag function - it is:

def getflag(thisflag, results):
     if (thisflag == 2):
         results[0] += 1
     elif (thisflag == 1):
         results[1] += 1
     elif (thisflag == 0):
         results[2] += 1
     return(results)

In c, I would have used switch and case, but I gather there is no direct 
equivalent in Python ...   But it works as is.

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