Python Coolness

[mathogre]

Python is one of the coolest languages.

I was just playing around with it today, beginning a little program I'm writing for fun. Problem was that I'd like to be able to easily call functions based on some condition. "Easily" is the operative term.

And it *is* easy. Define the functions, place their names in a named list, and then call the list item as a function of condition. Here's a simple example:

>>> def ab() :
...    return 0
... 
>>> def cd() :
...    return 1
... 
>>> def ef(q, r) :
...    return q+r
... 
>>> gh = [ab, cd, ef]
>>> 
>>> gh
[<function ab at 0x61270>, <function cd at 0x612b0>, <function ef at 0x612f0>]
>>> 
>>> gh[0]()
0
>>> 
>>> gh[1]()
1
>>> 
>>> gh[2](4, 9)
13

 

[knightlie]

Now that is neat. PHP does that, or something similar, you can call variables as a function just by adding () after them - I did it by accident.