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

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Date	2013-05-14 17:31 +1000
Subject	Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ]
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.1662.1368516704.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:22 AM, 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.

Why do you think that? After all, the != operator doesn't call
__factorial__ and __assignment__ and return True if either is True,
does it?

ChrisA

PS. :-)

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Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] "Mr. Joe" <titanix88@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 05:23 +0600
  Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-05-13 09:59 +0000
    Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 18:26 +0100
    Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2013-05-13 14:08 -0400
    Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 04:15 +1000
    Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 19:28 +0100
      Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-05-13 21:17 +0000
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Fábio Santos <fabiosantosart@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 22:48 +0100
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-05-13 23:53 +0100
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-05-13 19:22 -0400
          Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-14 05:09 +0000
            Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-14 19:01 -0400
              Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-15 00:15 +0000
                Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-05-14 22:20 -0400
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 18:27 -0500
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-05-13 17:32 -0600
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-05-14 05:21 +0000
          Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2013-05-15 14:41 +0000
        Re: Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ] Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-14 17:31 +1000

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