True == 1 weirdness
Blake T. Garretson
blake.garretson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 09:14:47 EDT 2015
On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 8:54:07 AM UTC-4, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> The second test, test2, is interpreted (almost) as
>
> >>>> (1 in {1:1}) and ({1:1} == 1)
>
> which is obviously False.
Ah, that makes sense. It didn't occur to me that Python would interpret it that way, and I've been using Python daily for 15 years. I try to avoid ambiguous chained comparisons, and I use parenthesis even when I don't need them for clarity. Thanks!
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