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Python Tuple cmp() Function
Description:
This function compares elements of two tuples.
Syntax:
Parameters:
Here is the detail of parameters:
Return Value:
If elements are of the same type, perform the compare and return the result. If elements are different types, check to see if they are numbers.
- If numbers, perform numeric coercion if necessary and compare.
- If either element is a number, then the other element is "larger" (numbers are "smallest").
- Otherwise, types are sorted alphabetically by name.
If we reached the end of one of the tuples, the longer tuple is "larger." If we exhaust both tuples and share the same data, the result is a tie, meaning that 0 is returned.
Example:
#!/usr/bin/python
tuple1, tuple2 = (123, 'xyz'), (456, 'abc')
print cmp(tuple1, tuple2);
print cmp(tuple2, tuple1);
tuple3 = tuple2 + (786,);
print cmp(tuple2, tuple3)
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This will produce following result:
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