>Still, this can be acomplished with the break statement, in a more >clear way, with less variables (which implies less work for the gc and >everybody).
Glad to read from you Francisco. :) Keep up that hard work, thanks. I have been talking with those Python programmers (And Role players), :) and I have made a bit of code for you avoiding the "and" keyword: >>>cordure = 54 >>>monster = [ "Tchulu", "Golum", "Cerberus"] >>>for wow in monster until cordure < 0: >>> if wow == "Tchulu": cordure -= 30 >>> elif wow == "Cerberus": cordure -= 20 >>> elif wow == "Golum": cordure -= 5 >>>if cordure <= 0: >>> print "End game" >>>else: >>> print "Next task" This is your version: >>>cordure = 54 >>>monster = [ "Tchulu", "Golum", "Cerberus"] >>>for wow in monster: >>> if wow == "Tchulu": cordure -= 30 >>> elif wow == "Cerberus": cordure -= 20 >>> elif wow == "Golum": cordure -= 5 >>> if cordure < 0: break # :| >>>if cordure <= 0: >>> print "End game" >>>else: >>> print "Next task" a) As you can see, one more line of code... Plus, in your code I do not see beforehand when this roleplayer runs out of cordure. # Little things matter. :) b) Given that your IF condition is evaluated ON every iteration, I see one line less on code, evaluating the SAME conditions, for every iteration. c) I did not want to say this :| +Debugging and friends: +Tools > Search +Break ummmm in the new for I can see what is going to happend beforehand, so I can search faster when debugging: "...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations..." [1] d) I just wont more power on the just impressive Python for loop, we can have it all. [1] Go To Statement Considered Harmful Edsger W. Dijkstra http://www.acm.org/classics/oct95/ PD1: Francisco we have talked about this on the IRC, the code presented is somehow TOY code to express what I (Somebody?) want Python to do. PD2: Try to imagine that nested loop with those 200+ lines in it ( Probably is bad coded :?, or not! ) and try to debug all those BREAKS. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
