comparing str's with ints

Kragen Sitaker kragen at pobox.com
Wed May 1 21:07:55 EDT 2002


"Andrew Dalke" <dalke at dalkescientific.com> writes:

> Kragen:
> >Thus, heterogeneous collections are sortable.  This might be a wart;
> >once, > couldn't raise exceptions, and now we're stuck with its old
> >behavior in this case for compatibility.  It's kind of nice that
> >heterogeneous collections are sortable, though.
> 
> TypeError: cannot compare complex numbers using <, <=, >, >=

Thanks for the correction!  I guess heterogeneous collections are no
longer sortable.  I guess that means complex numbers were added after
== and > could raise exceptions.




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