In a message of Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:46:48 -0600, Ian Kelly writes: >Thought mirrors language. In English, we typically would say "x is not >between 0 and 10", not "x is either less than 0 or greater than 10".
I wonder if that is regional. I think you may have stacked things with the 'either' and the 'greater than'. 'Either' doesn't get used much unless you are heading for 'either x or y but not both'. And everybody says 'more' even when 'greater than' is arguably more precise. Around here, I would expect "x is less than 0 or more than 10" more often than either of your proposed forms. But yesterday I hit up the students with the 'what do you find more readable' question. There was broad consensus that: if 0 < x < 10 : do_something() else: do_something_else() was plenty more readable than anything using 'not' so that the class favourite for readability was: if 0 < x < 10: pass else: complain_out_of_range() though refactoring the whole lot so that you could have an out_of_range Exception instead of an if had a large number of supporters. Laura -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
