Terry Reedy wrote: > On 5/18/2011 2:51 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >> In Python 3 inequality comparisons became forbidden. >> >> --> 123 < [1, 2, 3] >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> TypeError: unorderable types: int() < list() >> >> However, equality comparisons are still allowed >> >> --> 123 == [1, 2, 3] >> False >> >> But you can't mix them (inequality wins) >> >> --> 123 <= [1, 2, 3] >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> TypeError: unorderable types: int() <= list() >> >> I realize this is probably a Py4000 change if it happens at all, but >> does this make sense? Shouldn't an attempt to compare to unlike objects >> be a TypeError, just like trying to order them is? >> >> It bit me when I tried to compare a byte string element with a single >> character byte string (of course they should have matched, but since the >> element was an int, the match was not longer True). > > Questions/comments like this that are not about developing the next > versions of Python, as you acknowledge above, really belong elsewhere, > like on the ideas list. My apologies. I'll be more careful. ~Ethan~
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