re best way to enumerate something in Python

[David Stockwell]

I'm going to try using the range function.

as in:

ID_COL, ANIMAL_COL, HOUSING_COL = range(3)

This appears to assign assign those vars as 'constants' with values of 0,1,2


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[Yermat]

I'm going to try using the range function.

as in:

ID_COL, ANIMAL_COL, HOUSING_COL = range(3)

This appears to assign assign those vars as 'constants' with values of
0,1,2

You should get an eye on
http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/EnumerationProgramming
It may give you some ideas...

 

[Michael Geary]

I'm going to try using the range function.

as in:

ID_COL, ANIMAL_COL, HOUSING_COL = range(3)

This appears to assign assign those vars as 'constants' with values of

0,1,2

Yes, this is exactly the same as if you'd written:

ID_COL = 0
ANIMAL_COL = 1
HOUSING_COL = 2

Earlier in the thread you asked:

In the os.stat there is aparrently a list of things you can refer to eg:
ST_SIZE, ST_ATIME, etc.

How are these defined? They appear to be related to 0,1,2,3,.... some
sort of enumeration.

It's easy to answer a question like that by searching the Python
installation directory (at least if the names are defined in Python source
code, not C code). You can either do a search, or since these are defined in
the stat module (not os.stat), you can look in stat.py, where you'll find:

# Indices for stat struct members in tuple returned by os.stat()

ST_MODE = 0
ST_INO = 1
ST_DEV = 2
ST_NLINK = 3
ST_UID = 4
ST_GID = 5
ST_SIZE = 6
ST_ATIME = 7
ST_MTIME = 8
ST_CTIME = 9

-Mike