Is there a way to write this in a easier way than putting elif a thousand times?

Question

travel = input("Where do you want to spend your vacation? \n")
if travel == "Home":
print("Lazy ass")
elif travel == "France":
print("For romance?")
elif travel == ("California"):
print("With the celebrities?")
elif travel == "Hawaii":
print("Beautiful view :)")

Answer 1

Since Python doesn't have a Select statement or Switch, your only other option would be to use a Dictionary. I don't know if it would look much prettier, but sometimes you don't have a lot of choices.

Answer 2

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Totally agree with @Sapphire, but you can bypass the external file and define dict with litterals directly in your code (but the most efficient way for a lot of data is to externalize them):
"""

travels = { "Home": "Lazy ass", "France": "For romance?", "California": "With the celebrities?", "Hawaii": "Beautiful view :)" }

travel = input("Where do you want to spend your vacation? \n")
if travel in travels.keys():
print(travels[travel])
else:
print('Unknown destination!')

Answer 3

Python does not have a switch statement?? Wow....

Answer 4

Belong to C optimization? Python is slow as heck. :P

Answer 5

It doesn't have 'switch' statements because Python doesn't need it. switch is an old concept that originally belonged to C as a compiler optimization, modern compilers do not need this to handle logic statements.

Back to topic:

In this case, it is redundant to write a thousand if statements. The better option would be to have these 'vacation' spots in a document, such as excel or text. Then, import this into python, and have Python place these into a dictionary.

So instead of 1000 if statements, you now have roughly 1.

Ta da

Answer 6

python is a high level language, where as c++ is a lower level language. It means python is a higher level of abstraction than c++. So it looks almost like English to us, humans. C++ is closer to C, and then machine code.

It's faster than python, buuuuuuut... it's much more bare bones than python. C/c++ have more control over the performance of a computer than python, but python can build a program faster than both of them, thanks to its high level abstraction and built in functions.

Your friend can laugh at Python for being 'easy', but Python can build a program faster than C or C++ could ever hope too. hehe ^^

They're both good at their own specific areas.

Answer 7

Some say that C++ is more bare bones, but that is just because they don't know or are not aware of libraries that are available. The STL for example is a highly optimized lib that you can use for all kinds of data structures.

Answer 8

Okay appreciate it

Answer 9

Thank you all for your answers 🤓

Answer 10

Okay gotcha. Thanks @Sapphire

Answer 11

I'm stuck on Python.. So I'd like to master it first and coding is fun as heck. I love to probem and it's like, a part of me lol.

Answer 12

One of my friends laughed at me because I was writing "Words" on Python. Why is that? He told me to learn C++ before Python.