cascading python executions only if return code is 0
Frank Cui
ycui at outlook.com
Sun Dec 22 14:10:36 EST 2013
sorry, but what if I need to have different parameters in these functions ?
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> From: breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
> Subject: Re: cascading python executions only if return code is 0
> Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 19:31:21 +0000
>
> On 22/12/2013 19:17, Roy Smith wrote:
> > In article <mailman.4500.1387739297.18130.python-list at python.org>,
> > Frank Cui <ycui at outlook.com> wrote:
> >
> >> hey guys,
> >> I have a requirement where I need to sequentially execute a bunch of
> >> executions, each execution has a return code. the followed executions should
> >> only be executed if the return code is 0. is there a cleaner or more pythonic
> >> way to do this other than the following ?
> >> if a() == 0: if b() == 0: c()
> >> Thanks for your input.
> >> frank
> >
> > Yup! Just do:
> >
> > a() or b() or c()
> >
> > The "or" operation has what's known as "short-circuit" semantics. That
> > means, if the first operand is true, it doesn't evaluate the second
> > operand. Just make sure that a(), b(), and c() all return something
> > which is true if they succeed and false otherwise.
> >
>
> Really? :)
>
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