On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > On Thursday, January 30, 2014 10:09:03 AM UTC-5, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >> E.g. `x+1 > 0 and y >= 5` is potentially as many as 9 distinct >> items to keep in short-term memory. But bracketing some terms >> as in `(x+1 > 0) and (y >= 5)` can reduce that down to as few >> as two items. > > Yes, that's probably how I would write that, although, this is even simpler: > > (x > -1) and (y >= 5)
Be careful; that's not the same thing. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
