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Mon Aug 7 17:55:00 CEST 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-August/068023.html

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:53:11PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> > I though I'd heard (from Guido here or on the py3k list) that it was only 
> > 1 < u'abc' that would raise an exception, and that 1 == u'abc' would still 
> > evaluate to False.  Did I misunderstand?
> 
> Could be that I'm wrong.

I also seem to remember that TypeErrors should only signal ordering
non-sense, not equality.  In this case, I'm on the opinion that unicode
objects and completely-unrelated strings of random bytes should
successfully compare as unequal, but I'm not enough of a unicode user to
be sure.

A bientot,

Armin.

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