Determining whether a variable is less/greater than a range.

[Peter Otten]

simonharrison.uk at googlemail.com wrote:

> Hi. I'm having another go at learning Python so I'll probably be
> asking a few basic questions. Here is the first one.
> 
> a = list(range(10, 21)
> 
> b = 9
> 
> c = 21
> 
> How can I find out if b and c have values less or more than the values
> in list a?

>>> a = range(10, 21)
>>> b = 9
>>> c = 21

Are there any items in a that are less than b or greater than c?

>>> any(x<b or x>c for x in a)
False

No. Are there any items in a that are greater than b?

>>> any(x>b for x in a)
True

Yes.

Peter