[Tutor] Two Quick Questions

[Russell]

Hello,

First, a general programming thingy.  Beyond the recent discussion of
version releases, is there a generally accepted way of actually giving
version numbers?  I tend to work on majorversion.minorchanges but is
there a more conventional way of handling it?  I never have figured out
the third number in some version either...

Secondly a, probably absurdly stupid, Puthon question (I'm only a
beginner ;o).  Fiddling around I discovered that using:

if not x in y:

and

if x not in y:

both give the same result for simple things.  E.g. for:

L = ['a', 'b', 'c']
S = 'g'

both:

if not S in L:
	print 'shrubbery'

and:

if S not in L:
	print 'shrubbery'

will give me a small decorative tree arrangement.

My question is:  Does the difference in order of nots and variables make
any difference when used in more complex, subtle ways?  If not, what is
the usual way of ordering it?  I prefer the second beacuse it sounds
nicer, but still ;o)

Thankyou for your help,

Russell
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