baffling bug in this bit of code!

[Daniel Jaeggi]

Max M wrote:

> Are you shure you are not comparing apples and oranges here ???
> 
> erhh I mean strings and integers ...
> 
> Ie.
> 
> max_y = '8'
> y = 42
> if (y > max_y):
>    etc.

OK, that has sorted it - I've forced my x and y to be int's. But that 
still didn't explain the behaviour.

repr(x) revealed that x was a string while max_x was an int but the 
program still managed to produce the right result. Whereas y was exactly 
the same but didn't come up the same. This is what confused me initially!

Thanks,

Dan

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