cascading python executions only if return code is 0

Gary Herron gary.herron at islandtraining.com
Sun Dec 22 14:21:06 EST 2013


On 12/22/2013 10:37 AM, Frank Cui 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
>
>
This would seem to do the same as your code and could easily be extended 
to your "bunch" of things:

exes = [a, b, c]

for e in exes:
   if e() != 0:
     break
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