if - else

[Robert Brewer]

I'm not really sure why either version would bother to recurse (if
SumOfNumbers > 9), and then set the "return value" to 1 regardless.
Unless you snipped some of the VB code? My advice is to avoid recursion
and use a while: loop instead, if you can. I'm guessing a bit here,
because I'm not sure I have the logic right given your description. But,
with a quick bit of Googling, I think I now understand "master numbers",
at least in your context, e.g.:
http://www.simonhuggins.com/courses/cbasics/course_notes/session13.htm#e
xercise_53

So you probably want:

def MasterNumber(SumOfNumbers):
    while SumOfNumbers not in range(1, 10) + [11, 22, 33]:
        I2 = SumOfNumbers / 10    # no need for int(), since the
division returns an int.
        F2 = SumOfNumbers - (I2 * 10)
        SumOfNumbers = I2 + F2
    return SumOfNumbers


Notice that range(1, 10) produces [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]. Not the
fastest method, but it works. Oh, and the case of 10 is already handled
by feeding it through the loop again, so I dropped that short-circuit.

HTH!

Robert Brewer
MIS
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Wagner [mailto:JWagner at hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 6:20 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: if - else
> 
> 
> I am trying to rewrite an old program written in VB. I can't 
> figure out how to do the following:
> 
> if SumOfNumbers == 11 or SumOfNumbers == 22 or SumOfNumbers == 33:
> 	return
> else:
> 	I2 = int(SumOfNumbers / 10)
> 	F2 = SumOfNumbers - (I2 * 10)
> 	SumOfNumbers = I2 + F2
> 
> What I want this thing to do is if the SumOfNumbers is 
> equivalent to any of the above, I want it to
> stop and return from whence it came. In VB, I had used a GOTO 
> statement which doesn't exist in
> Python. I can not, for the life of me, figure out how to 
> replace the GOTO function I was using. I
> have tried many options, i.e., continue, break, return,  
> return SumOfNumbers, return(), and none of
> them work.
> 
> This is what I am trying to accomplish:
> 
> def MasterNumberRoutine(SumOfNumbers):
> 
>         #This routine determines if the input is a master 
> number and, if not,
>         #adds the resultant
>         if SumOfNumbers == 11 or  22 or  33:
>             #go back to where you came from, don't continue ...
> 
>         I2 = int(SumOfNumbers / 10)
>         F2 = SumOfNumbers - (I2 * 10)
>         SumOfNumbers = I2 + F2
> 
>         if SumOfNumbers = 10:
>             #If SumOfNumbers = 10, then set it's value to 1
>             SumOfNumbers = 1
>         elif SumOfNumbers > 9:
>             MasterNumberRoutine()
>         else:
>             return SumOfNumbers 
> 
> This is the old routine from VB which worked ... I know, it's 
> crappy code. It's the first program I
> wrote many years ago.
> 
> Public Sub MasterNumberRoutine()
> On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
> 
> 'This routine determines if the input is a master number and, if not,
> 'adds the resultant
> 
> Dim I2 As Integer
> Dim F2 As Integer
>     
> If SumOfNumbers = 11 Or SumOfNumbers = 22 Or SumOfNumbers = 33 Then
>      GoTo Done
> End If
> 
> I2 = Int(SumOfNumbers / 10)
> F2 = SumOfNumbers - (I2 * 10)
> SumOfNumbers = I2 + F2
> 
> If SumOfNumbers = 10 Then
>     GoTo Check10
> ElseIf SumOfNumbers > 9 Then
>      MasterNumberRoutine
> Else
>     GoTo Done
> End If
> 
> Check10:
> 'If SumOfNumbers = 10, then set it's value to 1
> SumOfNumbers = 1
> 
> Done:
> Exit_Next:
>     Exit Sub
> 
> ErrorHandler:
> MsgBox "Error: " & Err.Number _
> & vbCrLf & Err.Description, _
> vbOKOnly, "Unexpected Error"
> Call ErrLogger("MasterNumberRoutine")
> Resume Exit_Next
> 
> End Sub
> 
> Thanks, Jeff
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