Avoiding too many if's

[Ted_Toad]

Hi first time here, forgive me if this has been asked before, did a search and couldn't find it.
I am writing a script to send various commands from a touch screen to a flight simulator program. There are about 30 buttons that can be pressed on two pages and I thought making a Class for the buttons might help avoid writing dozens of if statements.
The Class would look something like this

class Sim_key:
  def __init__(self, name, key_mod, key_code, x_coord, y_coord, status):
      self.name = name
      self.key_code = key_code
      self.key_mod = key_mod
      self.key_code = key_code
      self.x_coord = x_coord
      self.y_coord = y_coord
      self.status = status

So when the screen is touched I would have the x_coord and y_coord and use those (in a range like x(10,20) y(40,60)) to fire off the keyboard commands key_mod and key_code to the output routine.
Not even sure if a Class is appropriate here. Thanks

[jefsummers]

I wouldn't but depends on a few things. First is your choice of GUI. I use WX, and I would bind each button to its own routine - meaning no ifs. Of note, there is discussion about adding a switch type statement in a future Python version, but I would still think the binding method would be faster and more maintainable.

[metulburr]

The main way in python to avoid using a lot of if conditions is to use a dictionary. We have a tutorial to give an example.

[Ted_Toad]

Thanks for that not familiar with WX will check it out.

[Ted_Toad]

Yep I'm using some dictionaries already and probably will. Tried to load wx on raspberry pi but it didn't look like an easy install. Also giving tkinter a try but may just hard code it with dictionaries as suggested.
Thanks for helping out.

[deanhystad]

Why would you need to write dozens of if statements? Your buttons will call a function. Usually different functions for different buttons. The function call can pass arguments. I am not seeing where this leads to a lot of "if statements".

[Ted_Toad]

Just that I'm not familiar with the GUI tools. The last project I did was a small one with only six buttons and I used pygames to blit the buttons on screen then just passed the touch coords on to a bunch of if statements.
I took a look at tkinter but it looks like a steep learning curve to do the bitmapped buttons. Though it would be much cleaner.