Hmm... An idea: if a,b==c,d:

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:58, Richard Dillingham wrote:
> > Instead, (a, b) >= (c, d) is defined as (a>c or (a==c and b>=d)).
> 
> I just keep reading that again and again and thinking "WTF? Why? Wha...."
> 
> *shudders*
> 
> Now I'm sorry I asked...

Just in case it isn't clear, it isn't defined that way /in the
interpreter/.  Andrew was merely stating that the two statements are
/equivalent/ in this particular example (otherwise, think of the mess
when there are more than two elements in the tuple).

Instead of thinking of a tuple as a coordinate, think of it as an
immutable list (which is basically what it is).  Then the comparison
makes more sense.  It's the same comparison used on other Python
sequences (lists, tuples, strings, etc).


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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net)
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