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Re: Help with python functions?

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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 15:55:53 -0700, kjakupak wrote:

> As for the next one, so far I've gotten:
> def comp(T1, u1, T2, u2):
>     if u1 > u2:
>         return -1
>     elif u2 > u1:
>         return 1
>     else:
>         return 0

If the first function you wrote allows you to convert temps in different 
scales to a common scale, then in the second function, you can call the 
first function to convert both temps to a common scale, and compare them.

Adding "same scale" conversions in the first function might help. In a 
same scale conversion, the input and output units are the same, and the 
output value is the input value.

Then to compare T1 in u1 and T2 in u2, convert them both to a common 
scale (which might be u1 or u2 or some other scale) using your temp 
function, and then compare the resulting values.

-- 
Denis McMahon, denismfmcmahon@gmail.com

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Help with python functions? kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 05:57 -0700
  Re: Help with python functions? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-23 09:11 -0400
  Re: Help with python functions? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-23 13:56 +0000
    Re: Help with python functions? kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 15:32 -0700
      Re: Help with python functions? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-09-23 18:48 -0400
      Re: Help with python functions? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-24 03:08 +0000
      Re: Help with python functions? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-24 03:17 +0000
      Re: Help with python functions? giacomo boffi <pecore@pascolo.net> - 2013-09-24 18:53 +0200
        Re: Help with python functions? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2013-09-24 18:18 +0100
    Re: Help with python functions? kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 15:55 -0700
      Re: Help with python functions? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-24 00:07 +0000
        Re: Help with python functions? kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 18:23 -0700
          Re: Help with python functions? Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-09-24 03:52 +0000
      Re: Help with python functions? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 02:12 +0000
        Re: Help with python functions? kjakupak@gmail.com - 2013-09-23 19:40 -0700
          Re: Help with python functions? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 14:51 +0000
            Re: Help with python functions? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 19:42 +0000
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                Re: Help with python functions? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-01 21:45 +0000
                Re: Help with python functions? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-10-01 19:19 -0400
      Re: Help with python functions? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-24 03:15 +0000
        Re: Help with python functions? Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-09-24 15:02 +0000

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