On 14 Feb, 16:23, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > str.translate is what I'd do.
That's what I hope to do too, but it might not be possible (for the live, complex example). It looks as if I have to make a test, then process the contents of the code differently depending. There might well be a translation inside this, but I think I still have to have an explicit 3-way switch in there. > How would it being a lambda help you? I'm going to use it in a context where that would make for cleaner code. There's not much in it though. I still don't understand what a lambda is _for_ in Python. I know what they are, I know what the alternatives are, but I still haven't found an instance where it permits something novel to be done that couldn't be done otherwise (if maybe not so neatly). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
