Python IF THEN chain equivalence

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On Nov 13, 4:39 pm, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid> wrote:
> On 2008-11-13, jzakiya <jzak... 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.

It looks like Visual Basic.

IF a THEN
    do_a
    IF b THEN
        do_b
        IF c THEN
            do_c
        END IF
    END IF
END IF

Words different, but same structure.

>
> > 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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