Oops, I'm not quite right about this. This FAQ explains it better... http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html#4.16

-----Original Message----- From: chrism@digicool.com [mailto:chrism@digicool.com] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 4:51 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: RE: [Zope] brain hurts regarding dynamic fcn args in Python

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Is there a (straightforward?) way to dynamically compose function argument lists? For example, in C, you can write"

f(arg1, arg2, (conditional expression)?(val for TRUE state):(val for FALSE state)).

This can be emulated in Python by the boolean logic:

( ({conditional expression}) and {TRUE val} ) or {FALSE val}

e.g.

a = ( ( (x > 1) and "biggerthanone" ) or "smallerthanone" )

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x = 0 a = ( (x > 1) and "biggerthanone" ) or "smallerthanone" a 'smallerthanone'

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Or one can embed a fcn call within an argument list in order to supply a needed function parameter.

Hrm.. I *think* this will work as a function argment. Sure.. why not?

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