Re: "choose" in Python?

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Re: "choose" in Python?

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May 9th, 2008

Actually, in this case you don't need lambda, since you are only returning a string. Please shorten the code to ...

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def choose(s):
    return {
    '1' : "You inputted one.",
    '2' : "You inputted two.",
    '3' : "You inputted three."
    }[s]
 
var1 = raw_input("Input a number between one and three.")
print choose(var1)
def choose(s):
    return {
    '1' : "You inputted one.",
    '2' : "You inputted two.",
    '3' : "You inputted three."
    }[s]

var1 = raw_input("Input a number between one and three.")
print choose(var1)

Mildy more elegant ...

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def choose(s):
    return "You entered " + {
    '1' : "one",
    '2' : "two",
    '3' : "three"
    }[s]
 
var1 = raw_input("Input a number between one and three: ")
print choose(var1)
def choose(s):
    return "You entered " + {
    '1' : "one",
    '2' : "two",
    '3' : "three"
    }[s]

var1 = raw_input("Input a number between one and three: ")
print choose(var1)

Last edited by vegaseat : May 10th, 2008 at 12:03 am.

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