On Aug 18, 11:29 am, Jerry Hill <malaclyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:19 AM, noydb <jenn.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am being passed the list of strings. I have variables set up
> > already pointing to files. I need to loop through each variable in
> > the list and do things to the files. The list of strings will change
> > each time, include up to 22 of the same strings each time.
>
> If you have a mapping of strings to values, you should just go ahead
> and store them in a dictionary. Then the lookup becomes simple:
>
> def foo(list_of_strings):
> mapping = {
> "bar0": "/var/log/bar0.log",
> "bar1": "/usr/local/bar/bar1.txt",
> "bar2": "/home/joe/logs/bar2.log",
> }
> for item in list_of_strings:
> filename = mapping[item]
> do_something(filename)
>
> (Untested)
>
> --
> Jerry
Thanks, implemented something along those lines, and it worked!
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