On Apr 26, 7:31 am, Dustan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 26, 1:58 am, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 2007-04-25, Stef Mientki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hello, > > > > As part of a procedure I've a number sequences like this: > > > ><Python> > > > if Print_Info: print Datafile.readline() > > > else: Datafile.readline() > > ></Python> > > > > Is there a more compressed way to write such a statement, > > > especially I dislike the redundancy "Datafile.readline()". > > > > thanks, > > > Stef Mientki > > > You could consider the following > > > def Print(arg): > > print arg > > > def Noop(arg): > > pass > > or (untested): > > if Print_Info: > def printOrNot(arg): > print arg > else: > def printOrNot(arg): > pass > > printOrNot(Datafile.readline()) > > > > > (Print if Print_Info else Noop) (Datafile.readline()) > > > -- > > Antoon Pardon- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
The Enable/Disable decorators on the Python wiki (http:// wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary?highlight=%28decorator %29#head-8298dbf9ac7325d9ef15e7130e676378bbbda572) help you do something very similar, without having to replicate the function being enabled/disabled. @(disabled,enabled)[Print_Info] def printOrNot(arg): print arg -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list