Is there a more elegant way to do this?

[Peter Otten]

Kamilche wrote:

> '''
> Is there a more elegant way of doing this?
> I would like to have the arguments to pack
> automatically taken from lst.
> '''
> 
>     def pack(self):
>         lst = ['id', 'parent', 'number', 'x', 'y', 'z', 'red', \
>                    'green', 'blue', 'size', 'rotate', 'translucency']
>         return struct.pack('<IIIiiiBBBHHH', \
>                            self.id, self.parent, self.number,   \
>                            self.x, self.y, self.z,  \
>                            self.red, self.green, self.blue, \
>                            self.size, self.rotate, self.translucency)

There is an alternative

struct.pack("<IIIiiiBBBHHH", *[getattr(self, name) for name in lst])

and you could even add the typecodes

lst = [("I", 'id'), ("I", 'parent'), ... ]
struct.pack("<" + "".join([t for (t, n) in lst]),
   *[getattr(self, n) for (t, n) in lst])


but frankly, I prefer your original version.

Peter