Obsolesence of <>

[D-Man]

A while ago many people stated that the "<>" spelling of the
inequality operator is not obsolete, and actually preferred by some
(with Pascal-ish backgrounds).

While looking through the Ref. Man. on a totally unrelated topic, I
noticed the following :

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The forms <> and != are equivalent; for consistency with C, != is
preferred; where != is mentioned below <> is also accepted. The <>
spelling is considered obsolescent.
=============================

This newsgroup seems to think that last sentence is erroneous.  Does
anyone want to "fix" the ref man <wink>?

(http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/comparisons.html)

At-least-I'm-not-senile-yet-ly y'rs -D