"Frank Millman" wrote on 2018-12-18 in message news:...
I want to compare two tuples. They each represent a row in a database, and
each element represents a column, so I will use that terminology.
I need to know if one row is greater than or less than the other. The sort
sequence can be com
ce it in a
try/catch statement as any error would also be a false.
Just some thoughts.
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"Chris Angelico" w
Frank,
I am not commenting on your specific code, just asking a question.
If you have two tuples of the same size it does seem that python evaluates
them in the order you want just by doing something like this example I made
with a 2-tuple:
>>> (1, 2) > (2,1)
False
>>> (1, 2) > (1,1)
True
>>> (1
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:52 PM Frank Millman wrote:
> I need to know if one row is greater than or less than the other. The
> sort
> sequence can be complex - one or more columns, eac
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 9:52 PM Frank Millman wrote:
> I need to know if one row is greater than or less than the other. The sort
> sequence can be complex - one or more columns, each of which can be sorted
> ascending or descending.
>
> Below is the function I have come up with. Can anyone see an
