I have a series of if statements in a function like this:
if time == "%%00":
#code
elif time == "%%15":
#code
elif time == "%%30":
#code
elif time == "%%45":
#code
Where time is 24 hour format ie. 0000-2400 and I'm checking what 15 interval time is at. All the statements are ignored however, so "%%interval" doesn't work. Is it just something simple I'm missing here or do I need a different method?
asked Jun 20, 2012 at 5:43
Markaj
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There are several ways to do it:
if time.endswith("00"):
#code
elif time[-2:] == "15":
#code
elif re.match(".{2}30", time):
#code
elif time.endswith("45"):
#code
answered Jun 20, 2012 at 5:46
Sufian Latif
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fundamentally you are comparing string literals and nothing more, theres a couple ways of doing this, heres one without regular expressions.
if time[-2:] == "00":
#code
elif time[-2:] == "15":
#code
elif time[-2:] == "30":
#code
elif time[-2:] == "45":
#code
[-2:] will grab the last two chars from the string
heres one with regular expression, Im not a big fan of them, they can generate subtle bugs, but thats just my opinion.
if re.match('..00', time):
#code
elif re.match('..15', time):
# code
elif re.match('..30', time):
# code
elif re.match('..45', time):
# code
the . simply means match any char, except for \n, re.match either returns an object or None if there was no match.
answered Jun 20, 2012 at 5:59
Samy Vilar
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remodule.%is some kind of crazy string wildcard in Python (or that equality tests accept wildcards to begin with)?