On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Alan Gauld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rather than comparing in that manner I'd take a different approach. > I'd measure the length from the origin thus any point that was inside > the circle upon whose ciorcumference the point sits is less than > the point. Any point on the circumference is equal and any point > outside the circle is greater...
That will allow points with different x and y values to compare equal which would be a strange definition of equality. > [ Another approach with similar results is to convert the coordinates > into complex numbers and then use the complex number cmp method > to compare those. That just raises the question of how do complex numbers compare? Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
