Multiple questions concerning Python

[Kp]

No, Windows does not do it.  Even on Windows, it's traditional, but not mandatory for argv[0] to be the program's name.  My Windows programs routinely pass junk in argv[0] (a dash, a letter, an underscore - something easy to hardcode).

[topaz]

6. What is the equivalent of the switch/select case statement in Python?

(Python is great so far, but I've been needing to read a lot of documentation as well as code so I know how to use so-so function )

[dxoigmn]

Windows does it, and based on what's been said, that's the primary platform, so that's what I went with.

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/01/14/58579.aspx

6. What is the equivalent of the switch/select case statement in Python?

(Python is great so far, but I've been needing to read a lot of documentation as well as code so I know how to use so-so function )

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=python+switch&btnG=Google+Search

[Yegg]

6. What is the equivalent of the switch/select case statement in Python?

The equivalent is a lot of elif's .

[topaz]

6. What is the equivalent of the switch/select case statement in Python?

The equivalent is a lot of elif's .

Thanks.


7. What is the equivalent of the 'SendMessageByString' API? It's not available in the win32gui or win32api libraries - it merely posts text to a specified handle.

[K]

SendMessageByString is a just a declaration (used in Visual Basic) of SendMessage with either the LPARAM or WPARAM defined as a string.  You can just use SendMessage and pass a pointer of the appropriate type.

[warz]

Python has no switch statements? Eww?

Edit: After looking into this furthur, I guess that map method (thats what its called? dictionary map or something?) isn't that bad.

[topaz]

AFAIK, if/elif does essentially the same thing as a switch statement, in terms of operation.

[topaz]

8. How would I go about making my code look like this

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insertString 'string'

instead of the present

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insertString('string')

[Banana fanna fo fanna]

8. How would I go about making my code look like this

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insertString 'string'

instead of the present

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insertString('string')

You wouldn't.

EDIT: though you can use operator overloading to achieve similar results:

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mybuffer << "string"


Play around with adding a __lshift__ method to your code.