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Lambda ENGRAMS

Selecting user commands in style (Python)

If you write an interactive program that takes user commands as an input, you can select the appropriate action for a given command by going through a sequence of if... else if statements. But if you write in Python, there’s always a cooler way to do things. A method I like personally in this situation is defining a dictionary where the keys are the command strings, and the corresponding values are lambda expressions.
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