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Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ]

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On 13May2013 21:41, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
| On 05/13/2013 07:30 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| >On 13May2013 19:22, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
| >| On 05/13/2013 06:53 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
| >| >I much prefer the alternative <> for != but some silly people insisted
| >| >that this be removed from Python3.  Just how stupid can you get?
| >|
| >| So which special methods should the <> operator call?  By rights it
| >| ought to call both __gt__ and __lt__ and return True if either of
| >| them is True.
| >
| >Surely it should require both of them to be true...
| 
| Then it would never be true.  At least not for numbers.

Well that was the point. The _symbol_ looks like it should want
both. Next time I'll include the smiley.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

I really don't like :-) symbols as well. I feel that if you can't see the pie
coming, you deserve whipped cream up your nose.
        - robd@cherry.cray.com (rob derrick)

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Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2013-05-14 13:20 +1000

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