Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org> wrote: > So -- what's the philosophy, Guido? Are we committed to "everything > is comparable" (well, "all built-in types are comparable") or not? in 1.6a2, obviously not: >>> aUnicodeString < an8bitString Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? UnicodeError: UTF-8 decoding error: unexpected code byte in 1.6a3, maybe. </F>