On 16/04/2006 1:43 PM, John Zenger wrote: > > The other thing I'd recommend is stick that long list of fields in a > list, and then do operations on that list: > > fields = ['delete_id', 'delete_date', 'delete_purchasetype', > 'delete_price', 'delete_comment'] > > then to see if all those fields are empty: > > everything = "" > for field in fields: > everything += form.get(field,"")
Or everything = "".join(form.get(field, "") for field in fields) Somewhat labour-intensive. It appears from the OP's description that no other entries can exist in the dictionary. If this is so, then: everything = "".join(form.values()) but what the user sees on screen isn't necessarily what you get, so: everything = "".join(form.values()).strip() > if everything == "": > print "Absolutely nothing entered!" > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
