Hello, All.
I have a (silly?) question.
Let's say I have a variable:such that the following command would turn on an LED at pin 12:Very simple.
Now, what if I had a list of strings (in this case, from a .csv file) of different variable names. And as I iterated through those variable names, I would want to turn ON/OFF the respective accordingly.
It would be very easy to do the following:However, if there were 1000 different variables, this would be less than ideal. I suppose that a slightly cleaner method would be switch-statement, however I still feel this is not ideal.
Assuming that every string in my list correctly equals a variable that references a GPIO pin (ie, led1, led2, etc...) is there a way to convert the current string to a literal? So that we end up with something like:I understand that the simpilest way would be to just have a list of integers, each representing their respective GPIO pins, however for the sake of future debugging and readability, I don't want to do this.
ONE POSSIBILITY, would be to add an additional column in my .csv file with a corresponding pin. Maybe even some sort of translation table, like a dictionary. I'm just curious if there's a more elegant way, like the one I described above.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you,
Joe
I have a (silly?) question.
Let's say I have a variable:
Code:
led = 12Code:
GPIO.output(led, GPIO.HIGH)Now, what if I had a list of strings (in this case, from a .csv file) of different variable names. And as I iterated through those variable names, I would want to turn ON/OFF the respective accordingly.
It would be very easy to do the following:
Code:
if input == "led":GPIO.output(led, GPIO.HIGHAssuming that every string in my list correctly equals a variable that references a GPIO pin (ie, led1, led2, etc...) is there a way to convert the current string to a literal? So that we end up with something like:
Code:
myString = 'led'GPIO.output(someConversion(myString), GPIO.HIGH)ONE POSSIBILITY, would be to add an additional column in my .csv file with a corresponding pin. Maybe even some sort of translation table, like a dictionary. I'm just curious if there's a more elegant way, like the one I described above.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Thank you,
Joe
Statistics: Posted by joebro391 — Mon Mar 24, 2025 1:00 am