On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 04:23:17 -0800, nephish wrote:
> it isn't really that i will want to change it to an integer anyway. the
> script uses a table to reference a value to a key, if the key is a
> group of letters, that code tells the script to do something. if the
> value is a number, it means an equipment failure. The thing is, all the
> values come out as strings (they are read from a text file).
> so what you put first with the try/except looks like my best answer.
def do_this():
print "Do this"
def do_that():
print "Doing something else"
code_table = { "abc": do_this, "def": do_that, "xyz": do_this }
error_table = { "001": "Broken widget", "002": "Overloaded doohickey"}
if code_table.has_key(value_from_hardware):
code_table[value_from_hardware]()
else:
try:
print error_table[value_from_hardware]
except KeyError:
raise CustomHardwareError("Unknown value!")
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