At 07:41 AM 1/7/04 -0800, Robert Brewer wrote: >and Guido van Rossum replied: > > Not to me. Random reuses like this would make Python into a > > mysterious language. > >More mysterious than these comparisons? ;) > > >>> 'a' > 3 >True > >>> '3' > 4 >True Code that relies on those comparisons is broken, per the reference manual.