Obsolesence of <>

Thomas Wouters thomas at xs4all.net
Thu May 31 05:03:16 EDT 2001


On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:25:34AM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:

> I use [ the <> operator ] and strongly prefer it.

Same here.

> I know that Guido dislikes <> enough to actually change it to != in the
> standard library.

Well, what does he know. Sheesh!

> I personally hope that <> will never go away.

Same here... It'd be a shame to have to fork python over something as
trivial as that <1.1 wink -- but you know how serious I am wrt. backward
compatibility ;->

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