On Monday, October 5, 2015 at 7:58:34 AM UTC+5:30, Rustom Mody wrote: > On Sunday, October 4, 2015 at 7:18:11 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > and some negations may technically be harder to understand, but in a > > practical sense the difference may be negligible: > > > > if x == 1: ... > > > > if x != 1: ... > > > > > > I refuse to believe that the second is *significantly* harder to reason > > about than the first. > > [With hermeneutic/semantic hat firmly on] > one could make a case that > "!=" ≠ "not =" ≠ "≠" > [Back with python hat] > My preference: > not 1 <= x <= 10
I take that back: Unarys binding looser than binaries is "yuck" (in my book) SO it would have to be not (1 <= x <= 10) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
