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Fri May 21 16:07:28 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-May/044941.html

On Friday 21 May 2004 03:46 pm, Barry Warsaw wrote:
 > On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 15:37, Casey Duncan wrote:
 > > Finally, a use for <>. Barry will be so happy ;^)
 >
 > And Just, and Fred.

No, no, no.  "<>" is a misapplication of pointy brackets.  Note that there's 
nothing in the middle; what's the point of bracketing if there's nothing to 
bracket?

The inequality operator should be spelled "!=", mostly so it's not confused 
with the structured-bracketing operation.

  -Fred

-- 
Fred L. Drake, Jr.  <fred at zope.com>
PythonLabs at Zope Corporation

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