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ast.Gt

operators

The marker for the comparison > in an ast tree: it sits in Compare.ops and has no fields.

Syntax

ast.Gt()

The chain 'a > b > c' is one Compare with two operators in ops and two values in comparators, not two nested comparisons — matching how Python evaluates it. Compare marker nodes by type (isinstance), not with ==: ast nodes have no __eq__, so ast.Gt() == ast.Gt() is False.

Examples

import ast
c = ast.parse('a > b > c', mode='eval').body
print(type(c).__name__, [type(o).__name__ for o in c.ops])  # → Compare ['Gt', 'Gt']
print(c.left.id, [x.id for x in c.comparators])  # → a ['b', 'c']
print(ast.Gt() == ast.Gt())  # → False

See also

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