[Tutor] or synxtax in if statement

[Brian Wisti]

On 8/31/07, David Bear <david.bear at asu.edu> wrote:
>
> I think I want to be lazy and express this
>
> if a == b | a = c
> (if a equal b or a equals c)
> using
>
> if a == b | c
>
> it seems to work.. but I'm not sure if it is correct -- and I haven't seen
> any documentation on using this type of syntax.



You could put b and c in a tuple or array and check for membership

>>> a, b, c = 1, 0, 1
>>> a in (b, c)
True

Is that lazy enough?

Kind Regards,

Brian Wisti
http://coolnamehere.com/
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