On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:46:34 +0000, Simon Brunning wrote: > On 2/14/07, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> After re-reading my original post I was pretty vague. I'm trying to creat >> a list of ranges of floats, 0.0 10.0, 11 20, etc then checking to see if >> an float, example 12.5 falls in the list and if so get the list index of >> where it is in the index. Does this make sense? > > Ah, you want to know if a certain number is between to other numbers. > That's not what range() is for - range() is for generating lists of > integers. You can use it to do a between test for integers, I suppose, > but even for integers it's a pretty poor way of going about it - > you'll be creating a potentially large lists of integers, only to > throw it away again. > > Consider something like: > > def between(lower, upper, target): > return lower < target < upper > > Works for integers and floats interchangably. Or better still, do the > lower < target < upper thing inline. You hit it on the head Simon. Thanks for strightening out my thinking.
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
