Deborah Swanson wrote: > Here I have a real mess, in my opinion:
[corrected code:] > if len(l1[st]) == 0: > if len(l2[st]) > 0: > l1[st] = l2[st] > elif len(l2[st]) == 0: > if len(l1[st]) > 0: > l2[st] = l1[st] > Anybody know or see an easier (more pythonic) way to do this? I need to > do it for four fields, and needless to say, that's a really long block > of ugly code. By "four fields", do you mean four values of st, or four pairs of l1, l2, or more elif-s with l3 and l4 -- or something else entirely? Usually the most obvious way to avoid repetition is to write a function, and to make the best suggestion a bit more context is necessary. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
