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Re: Comparison operators in Python

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Anirudh Sivaraman writes:

> 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 ?

In Python 3 it is an error.

Python 3.1.1 (r311:74480, Feb  8 2010, 14:06:51) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
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>>> 3 < 'kolme'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unorderable types: int() < str()

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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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