On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 2:27 AM Neal Becker <ndbeck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have code with structure: > ``` > if cond1: > [some code] > if cond2: #where cond2 depends on the above [some code] > [ more code] > > else: > [ do xxyy ] > else: > [ do the same xxyy as above ] > ``` > > So what's the best style to handle this? As coded, it violates DRY. > Try/except could be used with a custom exception, but that seems a bit heavy > handed. Suggestions?
One common way to do this is to toss a "return" after the cond2 block. Means this has to be the end of a function, but that's usually not hard. Or, as Rhodri suggested, refactor xxyy into a function, which you then call twice. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
