Too Many if Statements?

[Casey Hawthorne]

Try the state(s) pattern!

"slogging_away" <hinnc at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hi - I'm running Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310
>32 bit (Intel)] on win32, and have a script that makes numerous checks
>on text files, (configuration files), so discrepancies can be reported.
> The script works fine but it appears that I may have hit a wall with
>'if' statements.
>
>Due to the number of checks perfromed by the script on the text files,
>(over 500), there are quite a few 'if' statements in the script, (over
>1150).  It seems that it is at the point that when I add any additional
>'if' statements the script will not run.  No error is produced - it
>just returns to the python prompt much the same as when a successful
>'Check Module' command is selected.  If I delete some other 'if'
>statements the new ones work so it appears that it has hit a limit on
>the number of 'if' statements.  This has stunted any further checks for
>the script to make on the text files.
>
>Hs anyone ever run into this sort of thing?
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Regards,
Casey