On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 12:44:03 AM UTC+5:30, Gary Herron wrote:
> On 03/25/2015 10:29 AM, Manuel Graune wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to supply a condition to an if-statement inside a
> > function body when calling the function. I can sort of get what I want
> > with using eval (see code below) but I would like to achieve this in a
> > safer way. If there is a solution which is safer while being
> > less flexible, that would be fine. Also, supplying the condition as a
> > string is not necessary. What I want to do is basically like this:
> >
> > def test1(a, b, condition="True"):
> > for i,j in zip(a,b):
> > c=i+j
> > if eval(condition):
> > print("Foo")
> >
> > test1([0,1,2,3],[1,2,3,4],"i+j >4")
> > print("Bar")
> > test1([0,1,2,3],[1,2,3,4],"c >4")
> > print("Bar")
> > test1([0,1,2,3],[1,2,3,4],"a[i] >2")
> > print("Bar")
> > test1([0,1,2,3],[1,2,3,4])
> >
> >
>
> This is nicely done with lambda expressions:
The builtin function filter is for this (more or less).
Comprehensions are usually better than filter.
[And BTW
help(filter) in python2 is much better documention than in python3
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