Question

I have a script that relies on argparse. The mainbody of the script has if statements like this:

if results.short == True and results.verbose == False and results.verbose2 == False and results.list == False and results.true == False:

Isn’t there any shorter way to do that? Say I have more than those 5 arguments, typing each of them in every statement seems like repetitive work.

Can’t if do something like:

if results.short == True and "results.%s"== False % (everyotherresults.something):

I’m writing for Python 2.7

Answer 1

you shouldn’t compare to bool in boolean expressions, eg:

if (results.short 
    and not results.verbose 
    and not results.verbose2 
    and not results.list 
    and not results.true):