[Tutor] Question About Structs

[Rick Pasotto]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 01:39:35PM -0300, Hector A. Paterno wrote:
> 
> Hi, Im recently programming in python and I'v one question :
> 
> Who is the best form in python to replace what in c is called struct ?
> 
> For example in C I have this struct :
> 
> struct monitor {
>  char *model;
>  int number;
> };
>    
> My best was to replace this with a DIC :
>    
> monitor = {'model':'', 'number':}
> 
> This is correct ? There are a best way to do a struct like this in python ?

Depends on what you want to do/how you need to deal with the data.
Sometimes a list (or tuple) will do the job, sometimes a dictionary is
more appropriate. If you actually need to deal with "the first four
bytes are a long int and the next four bytes are two short ints and the
next twenty bytes are a character array (ie, string)" then you can use
the struct library.

Most of the time lists or dictionaries are better suited.

> Pd: Python doesn't has the case statment ?

The case statement functionality can be express with:

if <test1>:
	<action1>
elif <test2>:
	<action2>
elif <test3>:
	<action3>
else:
	<default action>

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