Hello all,
I am regularly writing programs that parses ever changing lists of
variables.
The method I do it is by loading it in to a dictionary of the form:
d['variable_name']=variable_value
So when it comes to a method that uses a required set of variables I have to
make tens of the following statements
if d.has_key('swr'):
swr = float(d['swr'])
else:
print 'ERROR: COREYTAB variable swr not specified'; iErr += 1
When I thought a pythonic way of doing it would be to use a variable
variable.(sorry that sounds ridiculous) but it would work like this:
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# make all input parameters equal the string of themselves
type = 'type'; tabnum = 'tabnum'; coreyw = 'coreyw'; coreyow =
'coreyow'
swc = 'swc'; swr = 'swr'; kro_swc = 'kro_swc'; krw_swr = 'krw_swr'
coreyg = 'coreyg'; coreygo = 'coreygo'; sgi = 'sgi'; sgc = 'sgc'
sgr = 'sgr'; kro_sgc = 'kro_sgc'; krg_swc = 'krg_swc'
# error check parameters existence and if there, over-write their info
# if there are integer values, then must remember to re-typecast them
later
for var in (type, tabnum, coreyw, coreyow, swc, swr, kro_swc, krw_swr,
coreyg, coreygo, sgi, sgc, sgr, kro_sgc, krg_swc):
if d.has_key(var):
if isnumeric(d[var]):
var = float(d[var])
else:
var = d[var]
else:
print 'ERROR: getcorey() parameter '+str(var)+' not specified'
iErr += 1
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Since this doesn't work, any other ideas out there?
Many thanks in advance, Gavin
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