Dictionary vs if-elif?

[Ralf Canis]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:36:36 GMT, "William Dandreta"
<wjdandreta at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

Don't know if this is really better but how about:

bogusCodes = ( '1.', '31', '90', 'AZ' ...... )
...
if item in bogusCodes:
  do something useful