J. Clifford Dyer wrote: > 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.
Okay, but you should have left off the second example, because it has nothing to do with the others. > 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. That's true. The only sensible thing to do, if you had "real" booleans, for 1 > True, would be to raise an exception. Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
