Hello all,
I have made a python script to upload contact information from an excel
worksheet to an online database. One part of the program that really
tripped me up was when I wanted to call specific class methods that I
had made to deal with specific types of contact information (Parent's
name, Child's name, Phone #, etc). My first thought was to make it easy
using the exec statement.
The code (a method within a class) looked like this:
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def parse(self, data, data_type)
exec "self.__parse_%s(data)" % data_type
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The data_type variable contains strings that exactly match the spellings
of the 2nd word in the titles of the class methods that I wanted to call
for each data_type inputted into the parse function. For some reason,
*it didn't work*. Alternately, I found the ugly code shown below to be
functional. As you can see, for each data_type, I call the
corresponding class method that I've specified. Please help me to
transform my ugly functional code into concise functional code. :)
Thanks,
Matthew
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def parse(self, data, data_type):
if data_type == 'nocall':
self.__parse_nocall(data)
elif data_type == 'DOB':
self.__parse_DOB(data)
elif data_type == 'gender':
self.__parse_gender(data)
elif data_type == 'Prematurity':
self.__parse_Prematurity(data)
elif data_type == 'email':
self.__parse_email(data)
elif data_type == 'languages':
self.__parse_languages(data)
elif data_type == 'phone':
self.__parse_phone(data)
elif data_type == 'cname':
self.__parse_cname(data)
elif data_type == 'pname':
self.__parse_pname(data)
elif data_type == 'address':
self.__parse_address(data)
elif data_type == 'duedate':
self.__parse_dudedate(data)
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