Rikard Bosnjakovic wrote: > I'm tidying up some code. Basically, the code runs a bunch of > regexp-searches (> 10) on a text and stores the match in a different variable. > > Like this: > > re1 = r' ..(.*).. ' > re2 = r' .... ' > re3 = r' .(.*).. ' > ... > m = re.search(re1, data) > if m: > myclass.bar = m.group(1) > > m = re.search(re2, data) > if m: > myclass.foo = m.group(1) > > m = re.search(re3, data) > if m: > myclass.baz = m.group(1) > > > While this code works, it's not very good looking. > > What I want is to rewrite it to something like this: > > l = [ (re1, myclass.bar), > (re2, myclass.foo), > (re3, myclass.baz), > ] > > for (x,y) in l: > m = re.search(x, y) > if m: > y = m.group(1) > > But since Python doesn't work that way, that idea is doomed. What I'm > looking for are other (better) ways or pointers to accomplish this task of > cleanup. > -----------------
I believe you can use the "setattr/getattr" call l = [ (re1, myclass, "bar") ] for x,y,z in l: m = re.search(x,getattr(y,z)) if m: setattr(y,z,m.group(1)) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
