Python paradigms

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <8cntqp$upi$1 at slb0.atl.mindspring.net>,
Andrew Dalke <dalke at acm.org> wrote:
>
>Nick Maclaren wrote
>>    x = (a != NULL ? a[i]->weeble : 0) + (b != NULL ? b[i]->wombat : 0)
>> [...]
>>What paradigms are there for replacing such constructions by?
>
>
>How about
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>  x = getattr(a, "weeble", 0) + getattr(b, "wombat", 0)

Thank you, yes, that does deal with that specific example.  But
it does not extend to the general case.


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Nick Maclaren,
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