[Tutor] Shorter way for a little program

[Alan Gauld]

On 23/08/14 15:16, Mimi Ou Yang wrote:
> age = input("K")
> age = int(age)
> if (age == 1) or (age == 2) or (age  == 3) or (age == 4):
>      print ("LOL")
> else:
>          print ("K")
>
> Is there a shorter way to do this program???

Yes you could do this:

print('LOL' if int(input('K')) in (1,2,3,4) else 'K')


Its shorter, but it suffers from the usual problems of
being shorter:
1) Its much harder to debug if it goes wrong
2) Almost any modifications are much harder.

Having said that there are some valid reductions you could consider:

age = int(input("K"))
if age in (1,2,3,4):  # or:  if 1 <= age <= 4:
       print ("LOL")
else:
       print ("K")

HTH
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