[Tutor] check_range

[DogWalker]

"Brian van den Broek" <bvande at po-box.mcgill.ca> said:

>Marc Gartler said unto the world upon 2004-12-14 18:12:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am fairly new to both Python & programming, and am attempting to 
>> create a function that will test whether some user input is an integer 
>> between 10 and 89, but the check isn't happening...
>> 
>> def check_range(myrange):
>>     if range(myrange) != range(10,89):
>>         return "False"
>>     else:
>>         return "True"
>> 
>> ...this gets called later via:
>>         if check_range(input):
>>             done = "True"
>>                 return int(input)
>> 

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>I have a some style suggestions for you, too.
>
>Try it this way:
>
> >>> def check_in_range(value):
>         in_range = False
>         if 9 < value < 90:
>             in_range = True
>         return in_range
>
> >>> check_in_range(35)
>True
>

Shorter:
    def check_in_range(value):
        return 9 < value < 90
 
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