Chris McComas wrote: > actually i'm running it online, with a mysql db. so in the db there is > a table CollegeYear with the following fields: > > name > rating > change > wp > > then another table Games > > date > year > team_1 > team_1_score > team_2 > team_2_score > > it goes through and calculates everything, then when it's time to > compute the rating i have say this code: > > http://dpaste.com/85300/ > > it goes through and computes them, then add the new rating and > absolute value of the changed rating to the db. what i need now is a > way to get the largest entry for 'change' and if it is greater than > 0.00005 then do this code again. if it is less than 0.00005 then we're > done.
What about "SELECT MAX( rating ) FROM CollegeYear"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list