Check if a given value is out of certain range

[Mark Lawrence]

On 30/09/2015 19:31, sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 29, 2015 at 1:33:23 PM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>> On 29/09/2015 17:48, Rob Gaddi wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 10:16:04 +0530, Laxmikant Chitare wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I know there is an elegant way to check if a given value is within
>>>> certain range.
>>>> Example - To check if x is between zero and ten, I can do 0 < x 10.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any similar elegant way to check if a value is out of certain
>>>> range?
>>>> Example - To check if x is either less than zero or greater than ten?
>>>> Right now I am using x < 0 or x > 10.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Laxmikant
>>>
>>> not (0 <= x <= 10)
>>>
>>
>> Yuck.
>>
>> --
>> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
>> what you can do for our language.
>>
>> Mark Lawrence
>
> What is so "yuck" about that?  What would you do instead?  It seems like the best solution to me.  Easy to read, fast to execute.
>

I have to parse those damn brackets and then figure out the inverted 
logic. Give me x < 0 or x > 10 any day of the week.  When you're an old, 
senile git like me, readability counts :-)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence