Checking if x>y without if statement

In Python, is it 开发者_StackOverflow中文版possible to check whether x>y without using the if statement?

There are a variety of ways to go about this:

print "yes" if x > y else "no"

or:

print ["no", "yes"][x > y]

or:

print x > y and "yes" or "no"

(at least, this is what my mind-reading powers think that you're doing)

>>> x=1
>>> y=2
>>> "YNEOS"[x<y::2]
'NO'
>>> x=3
>>> "YNEOS"[x<y::2]
'YES'

Yes:

x > y

This returns true if x is larger than y, and there is no if statement involved.

The question is really vague. You could check if x is greater than y in a while loop, or you could use the expression to return a boolean or whatever.

It would be a lot easier to answer if you gave us an example of what you're trying to achieve.

This question is awful, but I suppose I'll contribute an answer anyway:

bool(x>y)

x*(x>y) + y*(x<y)

this will return the greater of x,y

you can try

x > y

or

bool(x>y)

in the second case bool are unecessary, in two codes true or false are returned, however, no checks by the return are performed, and this is your question. NOT, a if statement have a identical translation in hardware and to perform an test (if) in hardware you realy need to use if or an most high level statment

This Answer comes late. If u just want to return anything u can do it with a while loop. Following Example:

while x > y:
    # Do anything.
    break

Or if u dont want to return u can use break in the Loop After u did what every u want to do. Sorry for my Bad English, i still hope this Answer helped anyway.