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Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range

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On 01/10/2015 19:18, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 08:31 am, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>>> What is so "yuck" about that?  What would you do instead?  It seems like
>>> the best solution to me.  Easy to read, fast to execute.
>>>
>>
>> I have to parse those damn brackets and then figure out the inverted
>> logic. Give me x < 0 or x > 10 any day of the week.  When you're an old,
>> senile git like me, readability counts :-)
>
> With the greatest of respect Mark, I don't believe that for a second. Your
> sig line, which you have used without fail for more years than I can
> remember includes the phrase "ask not what our language can do for you". If
> you can understand that, I don't believe that you cannot figure out how to
> go from this:
>
> # x is within the range a to b
> a <= x < = b
>
> to this:
>
> # x is NOT within the range a to b
> not a <= x < = b
>
> You're certainly a senile old git if you think we're falling for that
> one :-)

Why do you think I never gamble at anything, it's a mug's game.

>
> P.S. in case you missed it, you don't actually need the params, since the
> precedence of not is lower than the other operators.

I confess that I did not bother to check.

>
> Did-I-include-sufficient-smileys-ly y'rs,
>

Not bad.  However after the big match coming up on Saturday evening UK 
time one of us will possibly be putting up ginormous quantities of 
smileys, matched by the ginormous quantity of grimaces from the other :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@technologyhighland.invalid> - 2015-09-29 16:48 +0000
  Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-29 21:32 +0100
    Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range sohcahtoa82@gmail.com - 2015-09-30 11:31 -0700
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-09-30 23:31 +0100
        Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-02 04:18 +1000
          Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-01 18:20 +0000
            Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-02 05:19 +1000
              Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-01 19:41 +0000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-01 22:59 +0300
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-10-01 13:15 -0700
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-10-01 21:45 +0000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 16:03 -0600
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Chris Kaynor <ckaynor@zindagigames.com> - 2015-10-01 15:48 -0700
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 16:01 -0600
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-03 20:29 +1000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-10-03 11:48 +0100
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-03 14:12 +0200
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-03 23:51 +1000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-10-03 07:19 -0700
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-05 00:47 +1100
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 19:28 -0700
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-10-04 19:32 -0700
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-10-03 11:49 -0400
          Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-10-02 00:34 +0100
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2015-10-05 10:18 +0200
        Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Jussi Piitulainen <harvesting@makes.email.invalid> - 2015-10-05 13:08 +0300
          Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-05 14:42 +0300
            Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-10-06 00:10 +1100
              Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-05 16:25 +0300
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-10-05 10:19 +0100
  Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-29 17:04 -0400
    Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Luca Menegotto <otlucaDELETE@DELETEyahoo.it> - 2015-09-30 07:57 +0200
  Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2015-09-29 14:07 -0700
  Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 15:07 -0600
    Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-30 11:55 +1000
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2015-09-29 23:08 -0400
        Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-09-30 13:14 +1000
          Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 23:54 -0600
  Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2015-09-29 18:44 -0500
    Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-30 09:41 +0000
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2015-09-30 15:42 +0000
      Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-09-30 15:56 +0000
        Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-09-30 21:06 +0300
          Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-09-30 20:19 +0000
            Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 14:46 -0600
              Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-01 08:33 +0000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 18:37 +1000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-01 08:48 +0000
                Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 08:14 -0600
              Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-10-02 04:59 +1000
            Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-01 09:40 +0200
            Re: Check if a given value is out of certain range Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-10-01 09:58 +0200

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