How to optimise this code?

[Christof Winter]

David N Montgomery wrote:
> class testCase:
>     def __init__(self, tc):
>         if tc == 1:self.testCase1()
>         if tc == 2:self.testCase2()
>         if tc == 3:self.testCase3()
>         if tc == 4:self.testCase4()
>         if tc == 5:self.testCase5()
>         if tc == 6:self.testCase6()
> 
>     def testCase1(self):
>         print "tc1"
> 
>     def testCase2(self):
>         print "tc2"
> 
>     def testCase3(self):
>         print "tc3"
> 
>     def testCase4(self):
>         print "tc4"
> 
>     def testCase5(self):
>         print "tc5"
> 
>     def testCase6(self):
>         print "tc6"
> 
> 
>     def testCaseX(self):
>         print "tcX"
> 
> totalNumberOfTestCases = 6
> x = 0
> while x <= totalNumberOfTestCases:
>     x += 1
>     testCase(x)
> 
> 
> This template code is working, but I envisage having 100+ test cases and
> am concerned about my useage of if statements. I would be grateful for
> any pointers as to how I can run all tests cases, regardless of how
> many, in a more efficient manner.
> 
> Thank you in advance.

To get rid of the if statements, replace __init__ function with:

     def __init__(self, tc):
         functionToCall = eval("self.testCase%s" % tc)
         functionToCall()

HTH,

Chris