On Saturday, August 10, 2013 4:14:09 PM UTC-7, Roy Smith wrote: > > > I don't understand the whole SimpleChecker class. You've created a > class, and defined your own __call__(), just so you can check if a > string is in a list? Couldn't this be done much simpler with a plain > old function: >
> def checker(thing): > print "calling %s" % thing > return thing in ['a','b','c'] SimpleCheck is an extremely watered down version of my XML checker (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/XMLCheck/0.6.7). I'm working a feature that allows the checker to call a function to get acceptable values, instead of defining them at the start of the program. I included all of that because it's the shape of the script I'm working with. The real problem was setting additional handlers where they shouldn't be. Josh -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
