Two question from a newbie

[Moshe Zadka]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

>  >  1.) How do I implement ORs and ANDs in an if-statment?
>  > 
>  >    - e.g. I'd like to have this C-code in Python:
>  > 
>  >    if (x.mode == "view" || x.mode == "modify")
>  >       myMode = x.mode;
> 
>     if (x.mode == "view" or x.mode == "modify"):
>        myMode = x.mode

Apparently Fred is hacking too much C these days, otherwise he'd
encourage you to use Python (rather then C-in-Python):

if x.mode in ("view", "modify"):
	myMode = x.mode

(I saved you one time of writing x.mode. One less bug when you ch\ange
the name "mode").
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