[Tutor] Better way to compare values?

[bob gailer]

On 8/28/2011 9:19 PM, memilanuk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently picked back up the Python bug, and have started chipping away 
> at the warm-up exercises over @ codingbat.com.
>
> I'm getting thru the basic stuff okay, but I'm getting a feeling that 
> maybe I'm not doing things the 'right' way, even though the results 
> are correct.
>
> Specifically, checking if value 'a' OR value 'b' equal a certain 
> number...
>
> The example that I'm on at the moment (like I said, starting over at 
> the basics)...
>
> http://codingbat.com/prob/p124984
>
> My solution:
>
> '''
> Given 2 ints, a and b, return True if one if them is 10 or if their 
> sum is 10.
>
> makes10(9, 10) = True
> makes10(9, 9) = False
> makes10(1, 9) = True
> '''
>
> def makes10(a, b):
>     if (a == 10) or (b == 10):
>         #print('Yep!')
>         return(True)
>
>     elif a + b == 10:
>         #print('Si!')
>         return(True)
>
>     else:
>         #print('Nein!')
>         return(False)
>
> makes10(10,9)
> #makes10(9,9)
> #makes10(1,9)
>
>
>
> In particular, the 'if (a == 10) or (b == 10): line... is there a 
> shorter/more compact/more correct (i.e. pythonic) way of testing to 
> see if a OR b is equal to 10? stinfo/tutor
>
if 10 in (a,b) would do it.

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