[Tutor] question
Dave Angel
davea at ieee.org
Tue Sep 28 16:02:27 CEST 2010
On 2:59 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Hello,
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> Im now studying this page :
> http://openbookproject.net/thinkcs/python/english2e/ch16.html
>
> But I don't get it why aces are now lower then deuces in the cmp function.
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> Roelof
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>
Why would you be surprised that aces are lower than deuces? If aces are
represented by 1, and deuces by 2, then 1 is less than 2.
Notice that because self.suit is compared first, an ace of spades is
higher than a deuce of hearts. It's only within the same suit that an
ace is "less than" a deuce.
DaveA
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