david jensen <dmj....@gmail.com> writes: > Obviously, i can just write the code again, in an else, switching > indices 0 and 1. Or, I could just have a test at the beginning, switch > them if they are in the order "big, small", and then switch them again > at the end in a list comprehension. Both ideas seem terribly silly, > and there must be an obvious way to do it that I'm not seeing.
Generally when faced with this kind of question, see if you can use the built-in min and max functions: def getOutcomes(): outcomes=[] smaller = min(myList[0], myList[1]) bigger = max(myList[0], myList[1]) amountToShare=2*smaller remainder = bigger - smaller ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list