Georg Brandl wrote: > J. Clifford Dyer wrote: > >> >>> (1 > 0) < 1 >> False >> >>> 1 > 0 < 1 >> True >> >>> 1 > (0 < 1) >> False >> >>> 10 > (0 < 1) >> True > > I hope you know why this works the way it does. > > Georg
Yes, I do understand why it works. I couldn't have crafted it if I didn't, but my point is that the reason why it works is not explainable if you believe that you are dealing with booleans. It's only explainable if you recognize that you are actually dealing with integers, and specifically, 1 and 0. So the something/nothing dichotomy combined with an understanding of what the comparison operation REALLY does (yield a 1 or a 0) helps you understand where your result came from, while thinking in terms of true/false will mislead you. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
