Title: Baffling if statement
What are the actual types of temp and
Cutoff? Is it possible that you’re not comparing apples to apples?
For example, suppose you don’t
realize that one of your values is a string?
>>> t1="0.19"
>>> t2=0.24
>>> print t1
0.19
>>> print t2
0.24
>>> print t1>t2
True
Any possibility that’s what’s
happening?
Kent
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Durston
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005
3:35 PM
To: Pythonmac-SIG@python.org
Subject: [Pythonmac-SIG] Baffling
if statement
After spending a couple hours
trying to figure out what is going on, I’m asking for help.
Below is a short segment from a module I’ve written. Before the part
shown below, temp and Cutoff are defined. then comes the following:
blank='-'
if
temp>Cutoff:
print
'temp is', temp
print
'cutoff is', Cutoff
print
'symbol is', symbol
InfoCollector.append(symbol)
else:InfoCollector.append(blank)
the print out shows that temp=0.261 and Cutoff is 0.29498. Clearly temp is
smaller than Cutoff, so it should have gone to ‘else:’ but it
didn’t. In fact, no matter if temp is larger or smaller than Cutoff, it
always goes through the ‘if’ segment.
If I change the sign to ‘<‘, then it always goes to the
‘else’ regardless of the values of temp and Cutoff and never goes
through the ‘if’ segment.
When I write a short program to try to duplicate the problem everything works
normally.
Baffled,
Kirk
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