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mms6

Thu Oct 01, 2009 11:48 pm


Comparing Strings Help

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Given the variables  name1 and  name2 , write a fragment of code that assigns the larger of their associated values to  first . 

 (NOTE: "larger" here means alphabetically larger, not "longer". Thus, "mouse" is larger than "elephant" because "mouse" comes later in the dictionary than "elephant"!)



What I got is something like this:



first = (SOMETHING IS MISSING IN THIS BRACKET)  (name1, name2)





Something is missing in that bracket, but I have no idea what it is
Some help would be greatly appreciated.


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DtY

Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:11 am


RE:Comparing Strings Help

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You can compare strings like numbers,
if "a" > "b":
do something

So a solution could be
first = max(name1, name2)
second = min(name1, name2)

Or if you were not supposed to use max() and min() (most likely you haven't learned them yet), you can achieve the same thing with a conditional,
if name1 > name2: ...


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mms6

Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:37 pm


RE:Comparing Strings Help

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thanks