Odd truth result with in and ==
Cameron Simpson
cs at cskk.id.au
Wed Nov 21 15:17:52 EST 2018
On 21Nov2018 19:40, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>On 2018-11-21 19:18, Python wrote:
>>>>>1 in [1,2,3] == True
>>False
>>
>It's a chained comparison. It applies to '<', '<=', '>', '>=', '=='
>and '!=', but also to 'in', although I've never seen a chained
>comparison using 'in' in practice.
Me either. In fact, I was as stumped as the OP. I've never really
considered "in" as a comparison; in my mind comparisons are between like
items: numbers vs numbers, and so forth. Not elements versus a
collection of elements.
Can someone show me a real world, or failing that - sane looking,
chained comparison using "in"?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>
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