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| From | Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> |
| Date | 2011-06-01 13:16 -0600 |
| Subject | Re: Comparison operators in Python |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2378.1306955816.9059.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anirudh@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 ? It allows things like sorting of heterogeneous lists. It's generally viewed as a wart, though, and it was fixed in Python 3: Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:29:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 'x' < 5 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unorderable types: str() < int() Cheers, Ian
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Comparison operators in Python Anirudh Sivaraman <sk.anirudh@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 11:50 -0700
Re: Comparison operators in Python Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2011-06-01 22:08 +0300
Re: Comparison operators in Python Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-06-01 13:16 -0600
Re: Comparison operators in Python harrismh777 <harrismh777@charter.net> - 2011-06-01 19:44 -0500
Re: Comparison operators in Python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-06-02 02:09 -0400
Re: Comparison operators in Python Michael Sparks <sparks.m@gmail.com> - 2011-06-02 03:05 -0700
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