[Tutor] Making big 'uns into little 'uns

[Alan Gauld]

On 06/09/12 14:56, Ray Jones wrote:
> I have a multiple 'if' expression that I need to drastically reduce in
> size, both for readability and to keep errors from creeping in.
>
> For example, I would like to have the variable 'test' point to the a
> location 'grid[rcount-1][ccount-1]' so that everywhere I would use
> 'grid.....', I could replace it with 'test' How would I accomplish that?


I may have missed some messages but this is context free.
What are these multiple if statements?
Why would "reducing" them improve readability? It might make them 
shorter but more cryptic.

As to the other question, is

test = grid[rcount-1][ccount-1]

too obvious?

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