[Tutor] question

[Roelof Wobben]

From: rwobben at hotmail.com
To: davea at ieee.org
Subject: RE: [Tutor] question
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:22:17 +0000





 
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 10:02:27 -0400
> From: davea at ieee.org
> To: rwobben at hotmail.com
> CC: tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] question
> 
> 
> 
> On 2:59 PM, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Roelof
> >
> > 
> 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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> 

Hello Dave, 
 
In some games in the Netherlands Aces can have a value of 11 or 1 .
So if Aces are 11 then Deuces is lesser then Aces.
 
Can I say that the position of the list is a representation of the value.
 
Roelof
 
 		 	   		  
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