Python IF THEN chain equivalence

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-11-13, jzakiya <jzakiya at mail.com> wrote:
> I'm translating a program in Python that has this IF Then chain
>
>
> IF  x1 < limit:   --- do a ---
>     IF  x2 < limit:  --- do b ---
>         IF x3 < limit:  --- do c ---
>                        .-----
>                         ------
>                     IF  x10 < limt: --- do j ---
>                     THEN
>                  THEN
>               -----
>           THEN
>      THEN
> THEN

The placement of the THEN statements makes absolutely no sense
in any language I've ever seen.

> In other words, as long as    'xi' is less than 'limit' keep going
> down the chain, and when 'xi' isn't less than 'limit' jump to end of
> chain a continue.
>
> Is this the equivalence in Python?
>
>  IF  x1 < limit:
>         --- do a  ---
>  elif x2 < limit:
>         --- do b ---
>  ----
>  ----
>  elif x10 < limit:
>        --- do j ---

No.  That's not the same at all.


Here's one solution:

while True:
  if x1 > limit: break
  do a
  if x2 > limit: break
  do b
  if x3 > limit: break
  do c
  ...
  if x10 > limit: break
  do j
  break  

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