On 05/24/12 09:32, Phil Le Bienheureux wrote: >> I would like to pass something like this into a function >> test(val1,val2,'>=') > > You can pass an operator as an argument to your function. > > See : > http://docs.python.org/library/operator.html
And if you want to use strings, you can map them to the functions: import operator as o OPERATOR_MAP = { '=': o.eq, '==': o.eq, '!=': o.ne, '>=': o.ge, # ... } def test(v1, v2, op): return OPERATOR_MAP[op](v1, v2) -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list