On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:06:09 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 01:46:37 +0000 (UTC), Denis McMahon > <denismfmcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>On Sun, 05 Oct 2014 19:02:31 -0400, Seymore4Head wrote: >> >>> For the record, I don't want a hint. I want the answer. >>> I see a practice question is similar to this. >>> 15 <= x < 30 And it wants a similar expression that is equivalent. >> >>I think part of the problem here is that you don't understand the >>expression. >> >>The expression: >> >>15 <= x < 30 >> >>contains two conditions: >> >>15 <= x >> >>x < 30 >> >>For the whole expression to be true, both conditions must be true, hence >>the equivalence is: >> >>(15 <= x) and (x < 30) >> >>to test this in python command line, see if the two different >>expressions give the same result for a suitable range of values of x: >> >>for x in range(50): >> if not (15 <= x < 30) == ((15 <= x) and (x < 30)): >> print "discrepancy" >> >>or >> >>for x in range(50): >> if (15 <= x < 30) == ((15 <= x) and (x < 30)): >> print "ok" > > All of the practice questions up to this question had 4 answers. With > each question you could verify the correct answers by just copy and > pasting each choice into Python. > > So when the instructions said I could verify this with Python I assumed > there might be some way to test if the question was == to each answer.
no you need to type in each snippet of code & see if they give the same result when run. -- In every non-trivial program there is at least one bug. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list