Chained comparison number range in Python

Question

I have the following function:

def InRange(number):
    return 5 <= number >= 1

I want this to say false if the number is not within the range of 1 to 5 using a chain comparison, but cannot seem to get this right.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You want it like this:

def InRange(number):
    return 1 <= number <= 5

Note that you could also do:

def InRange(number):
    return 0 < number < 6

Answer 2

Use this:

1 <= number <= 5

From docs:

x < y <= z is equivalent to x < y and y <= z, except that y is evaluated only once (but in both cases z is not evaluated at all when x < y is found to be false).

Your (incorrect)expression is actually equivalent to:

number >=5 and number >= 1

So, it is going to be True for any number between 1 to infinity:

Answer 3

Alternatively you can do (it seemed appropriate based on the function's name):

def InRange(number):
    return number in range(1, 6)

For large numbers you should use:

def InRange(number):
    return number in xrange(1, 10000000)