Static parameter count

[Tertius Cronje]

Hi all,
This does not feel Pythonic. Is there a better way to do the same?

Many TIA
T


# L = [1,2,3,4,5,6, etc....]
# L can contain 'n' elements
# fmt is made up to each particular specification

if len(L) == 0:
return ''
elif len(L) == 1:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] )
elif len(L) == 2:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1])
elif len(L) == 3:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2])
elif len(L) == 4:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3])
elif len(L) == 5:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3], L[4])
elif len(L) == 6:
return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3], L[4], L[5])

# etc... etc... etc ...

[Ola Natvig]

Re: Static parameter count

Tertius Cronje wrote:[color=blue]
> Hi all,
> This does not feel Pythonic. Is there a better way to do the same?
>
> Many TIA
> T
>
>
> # L = [1,2,3,4,5,6, etc....]
> # L can contain 'n' elements
> # fmt is made up to each particular specification
>
> if len(L) == 0:
> return ''
> elif len(L) == 1:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] )
> elif len(L) == 2:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1])
> elif len(L) == 3:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2])
> elif len(L) == 4:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3])
> elif len(L) == 5:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3], L[4])
> elif len(L) == 6:
> return struct.pack(fmt ,L[0] , L[1], L[2], L[3], L[4], L[5])
>
> # etc... etc... etc ...[/color]

return struct.pack(fmt , *L)

Should do the trick

ola

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