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From: Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anirudh@gmail.com>
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Subject: Comparison operators in Python
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 11:50:39 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi

I am a relative new comer to Python. I see that typing is strongly
enforced in the sense you can't concatenate or add a string and an
integer. However comparison between a string and an integer seems to
be permitted. Is there any rationale behind this ?

Anirudh