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On 6/1/2011 8:44 PM, harrismh777 wrote: > Ian Kelly wrote: >> ?? wrote >>> 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: This was a Python 1.0 idea that Guido decided was more bug-inducing than useful. > Just another example (excluding print 1/2 and unicode) where 3.x seems > to be completely compatible with 2.x/ (tongue-in-cheek) Arbitrary comparisons were broken and effectively deprecated about a decade ago with the introduction of the complex type. Just another example where 3.x completes a process of change started years before. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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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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