rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> writes:
> unspeakably ugly code.
I'd write the code differently to not do all those branches.
I like to use 1-elemnt lists as an option type, instead of using None,
so you can just concatenate them together to get the first non-empty
one. Untested code:
array = [c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,...]
# return first element of iterable that matches condition, wrapped
# as a 1-element list. If no match, return empty list.
def xfind(condition, iterable):
for x in iterable:
if condition(x): return [x]
return []
while looping:
cs = xfind(this_condition, array) + xfind(other_condition, array)
# cs is now a list of either zero, one, or two matching elements
if len(cs) == 1:
r = cs[0]
elif len(cs) = 2:
r = <whichever is best>
else:
break
best = array.pop(r)
do_somthing_with(best)
Obviously you can golf the above in various ways.
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