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Lists and Conditional Statements |
You can use a list with the for statement, to process each element of the list in turn:
segmentlist = ["MSH", "EVN", "PID", "NK1", "PV1"] for segment in segmentlist: print segment # prints each segment name on its own line |
You can also use a list with an if statement:
segmentlist = ["MSH", "EVN", "PID", "NK1", "PV1"] segment = "PID" if segment in segmentlist: print segment, "is a segment in the list" if segment not in segmentlist: print segment, "is not a segment in the list" |
This is a convenient way to determine whether a value matches, or does not match, one of a number of acceptable alternatives.