I'm new to Python....
Can someone tell me why code only responds to the first boolean characater and not the rest?
cmd = '$D00\r'
if cmd[1] == ("S" or "D" or "R"):
Your equality test isn't doing what you think. The portion on the right is set of OR operators. They will return the first one that is truthy.
>>> ("S" or "D" or "R")
'S'So you are only checking if it is "S" (which it isn't). You probably want to use the
in operation.
>>> "S" in ["S", "D", "R"]
True
>>> "D" in ["S", "D", "R"]
True
>>> "X" in ["S", "D", "R"]
False
I understand what you are saying that the () will eval and get precedence. Just the existence of the tuple yields TRUE. Is there a way like C where I can just use the element in question of the string (cmd[1]) and search in one line of code? (like above)...I have a bunch of commands and don't want to do a line of code for each especially when many times the commands are identical in response size. For instance D, S and R will all return 6 bytes....X, T, U, A, F, G may all return 8 bytes....Seems foolish to write a line of code for each command letter???
Thanks a bunch for the help!
This seems to work, although it is rather bloated looking
if ((cmd[1] == "S") or (cmd[1] == "D") or (cmd[1] == "R")):
I now see what you were saying....thank you!
if (cmd[1] in ("S", "D", "R")):
And since you are testing if a character is in a set of characters you can simplify to if cmd[1] in 'SDR':