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New Python chess module

Will McGugan news at NOwillmcguganSPAM.com
Fri Sep 30 10:52:18 EDT 2005 
Pekka Karjalainen wrote:

> 
> I have one minor point. It looks like your test whether the location is on
> the board is needlessly complex. Python understands multiple comparisons
> like in mathematical notation, and not like in e.g. C language. This
> snippet shows what I mean:
> 
> 
>>>>[x for x in range(10) if 2<x<7] # 2<x<7 means 2<x and x<7
> 
> [3, 4, 5, 6]
> 
> Read about it in the reference:
> http://www.python.org/doc/2.4.2/ref/comparisons.html
> 

Thanks. I was aware of that, I've just never got in to the habbit of 
using it..

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