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Questions - simplify

I have an if-else statement with over 100 "elses". Any ideas on how to condense this?

I've coded a game in oTree for research purposes and the code below does exactly what I intend. The problem is that some games have over 100 rounds so you can see how the code could get ridiculously l...
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Cameron Kormylo

python

if-statement

simplify

otree

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You can use getattr and setattr for this and avoid ifs at all. getattr(self, name) # equal to: self.name setattr(self, name, value) # equal to: self.name = value The final code would be something ...
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Dmitry Barsukoff

Implementation of a function to check who wins on a TicTacToe game

This is my first approach to programming and I'm trying to create a TicTacToe game.At the moment, I'm doing a function that checks if a winning play is happening, but I'm sure that there are better wa...
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Daiana Terranova

javascript

conditional-statements

game-engine

simplify

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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I came up with this function hoping it's not too difficult to approach with. In case I can simplify it just let me know:) let whoWins = (boardGame) => { const winningConditions = [ [0, 1, 2]...
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Wiidialga18

Is there a way to compress a check that returns a nullable boolean this into 1-2 lines?

I'm making a simple C# console app and the user has to input either a 1 or a 2 to select their option, and obviously since the user can enter absolutely anything, I need to make a check that returns t...
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Nick

c#

simplify

Votes: 0

Answers: 3

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Probably you are looking for conditional operator ?:. But this could be complex to maintain and difficult to read if the logic is getting complex (adding logic for read == "3" and etc.). get...
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Yong Shun

Optimise a function with numerous conditions that depends on the previous row in a Python dataframe

I have the following dataframe: country_ID ID direction date ESP_1 0 IN 2021-02-28 ENG 0 IN 2021-03-03 ENG 0 OUT 2021-03-04 ESP_2 0 IN 2021-03-05 FRA 1 OUT 2021-03-07 ENG 1 OUT 2021-...
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Carola

python

pandas

dataframe

simplify

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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I recently had to accomplish something similar. My solution was to create a custom class to iterate over moving the some of the logic out of the loop and into the class. Its not a complete solution bu...
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Jason Leaver

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