On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:02 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Alain Ketterlin >> <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> wrote: >>> Ouch, you're right, I tried to stick with Marko's example and forgot the >>> basics. I meant "signed ints", but the "removable" condition should be >>> something like: >>> >>> if ( x>0 && y>0 && z<x ) >>> ... >>> >>> i.e., some condition that is never true (either false or undefined). >>> Thanks for the correction. >> >> Ah, yep. And yes, that's absolutely right - the compiler's allowed to >> treat that as never true. > > Am I missing something? Did you over-trim the quoting?
Yes, because the significant line was about three levels of quote back, so I didn't bother to go retrieve it. Immediately before the if: z = x + y; ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
