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From: Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Numeric root-finding in Python
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:47:31 -0500
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 10:20:17 -0500, inq1ltd <inq1ltd@inqvista.com>
wrote:

>
>
>I don't know the first thing about this math problem however,
>
>if I were to code this I might try ;
>
>   except ZeroDivisionError:
>         assert w = -1

	Uhm, that's invalid syntax, to my knowledge... Python doesn't allow
assignment (=) as an in-line operation.

>
>rather than;
>
>   except ZeroDivisionError:
>         assert w == -1
>
	This, OTOH, is a comparison operation...

	For small integers, using

		assert w is -1

might be an alternative, but it IS relying on the interpreter
implementation.

>>> w = 0
>>> assert w = -1
Traceback (  File "<interactive input>", line 1
    assert w = -1
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>> assert w == -1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
AssertionError
>>> assert w is -1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module>
AssertionError
>>> w = -1
>>> assert w == -1
>>> assert w is -1
>>> 
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