1 > 0 == True -> False

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/01/2014 14:46, Thibault Langlois wrote:
> On Thursday, January 30, 2014 2:08:58 PM UTC, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article <3dcdc95d-5e30-46d3-b558-afedf9723c7c at googlegroups.com>,
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>>   Thibault Langlois <thibault.langlois at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> You are right. I should have given some context.
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>>> I am looking at this from the perspective of the teacher that has to explain
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>>> idiosyncrasies of the language to inexperienced students.
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>>> There are two aspects in this example.
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>>> 1. the equivalence of True/False with integers 1/0 which have pro and cons.
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>>> 2. the chaining rules of operators. I agree that it may make sense in some
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>>> cases like x > y > z but when operators are mixed it leads to counter
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>>> intuitive cases as the one I pointed out.
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>>>
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>>> The recommendations to student are 1) do not assume True == 1 and do not use
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>>> operator chaining.
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>> Better than that, do what I do.
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>> 1) Assume that you don't have the full operator precedence table
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>> memorized and just parenthesize everything.
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>> 2) In cases where the expression is so simple, you couldn't possibly be
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>> wrong, see rule #1.
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> Agreed !
>

Pleased to see that as always plenty of helpful responses here.  In 
return would you please read and action this 
https://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython to prevent us seeing the 
double line spacing above, thanks.

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Mark Lawrence