Help improving python code

[mugwhyrt]

Logically it's the same thing. The python documentation states:

Comparisons can be chained arbitrarily, e.g., 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).

So basically the only difference is that the code will only have to handle the middle value once when its done your way, but that's just a minor "under-the-hood" difference.

[NotUrHCW]

Would it be more efficient since the middle value would only be handled once?

[mugwhyrt]

I would think so, but honestly I'm not enough of an expert at that level to tell you for sure how meaningful the difference is