> Heiko wrote:
> SETUP = object()> ELSE =
object()> BREAK = object()
>
> machine = {"WAITING FOR ACTION":>
{customer_drops_coin:"COIN HAS BEEN DROPPED",>
customer_selects_beverage:"ORDER RECEIVED",>
customer_cancels_order:"ACCOUNT CLOSURE IS
On Sunday 06 March 2005 14:26, Anthra Norell wrote:
>
Wow, I never thought I'd say this, but this certainly is an ingenious use of
goto... But, nevertheless, I don't think this is applicable to Python as a
way of justifying goto in the language, as your program doesn't have a split
between abs
Paul McGuire wrote:
> At the risk of beating this into the Pythonic ground, here is a
> generator version which collapses the original nested loop into a
> single loop, so that break works just fine:
Indeed. For some things I'm still in the pre-generator days of
Python. If I worked at it I think
> Please
include "goto" command in future python realeses> know that proffesional
programers doesn't like to use it, > but for me as newbie it's too hard
to get used replacing it > with "while", "def" or other commands>
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I believe the bad reputation of 'goto' goes back to
the originators
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 5 Mar 2005 08:00:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following
in comp.lang.python:
"explicit GOTO"'. Goto's are less dangerous when they are in the
forward direction, to code appearing later.
UGH... That is the one direction I always avoid (in FORTRAN 77).
Typica
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Goto is useful [...] when there is a clean-up section of a function
that should be executed for various error conditions.
Like this?
def foo():
f = open('foo.txt')
try:
# do stuff with f
finally:
f.close()
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At the risk of beating this into the Pythonic ground, here is a
generator version which collapses the original nested loop into a
single loop, so that break works just fine:
.def getCombinations(*args):
.if len(args) > 1:
.for a0 in args[0]:
.for remainder in ge
beliavsky wrote:
> Goto is useful in breaking out of a nested loop and when there is a
> clean-up section of a function that should be executed for various
> error conditions.
But much less useful in languages like Python which have exception
handling.
At rare times I've needed something like
fo
Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
>
> BOOGIEMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Please include "goto" command in future python realeses I know
> > that proffesional programers doesn't like to use it, but for me as
> > newbie it's too hard to get used replacing it with "while", "def"
> > or othe
