On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 08:04:22 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote: > Benjamin Kaplan wrote: >> .... Python does not support compound comparisons like that. You have >> to do "a > b and b > c". > > Funny, my python does. This has been around a long time. I am not > certain whether 1.5.2 did it, but "chained comparisons" have been around > for a long time.
Yes it does: $ python1.5 Python 1.5.2 (#1, Apr 1 2009, 22:55:54) [GCC 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-27)] on linux2 Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam >>> >>> 2 < 3 < 4 1 Remembering that back then, 0 and 1 were used instead of False and True. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
