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Message: [QUOTE="palewire, post: 3895272"] In my application, I'd like to have a function that compares two values, either of which may be null, and then classify the result depending on whether one is higher or lower than the other. I find myself writing something clunky like this, and I'm curious whether anyone might know a more elegant way for parsing this out. def compare(a, b): if not a and not b: return "No data" else: if a == 0 and b == 0: return "Never had" else: if a == b: return "Stayed the same" elif a < b: return "Gained" elif a > b and b > 0: return "Lost Some" elif a > b and b == 0: return "Lost All" If there's some obvious way to search for this solution online, feel free to slap me with that. I tried digging around on Google and couldn't come up with much. Thanks much. [/QUOTE]