sys.argv and while loop

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 08-May-2002 Frank Tobin wrote:
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry, on 2002-05-08, wrote:
> 
>> Many times perl will "do the right thing(tm)" for you and without
>> telling you.  Sometimes you do not want this behaviour.  Python
>> generally does what you tell it to.
> 
> 'generally'.
> 
> As talked about in a recent thread about comparing strings and ints:
> 
>   Otherwise, objects of different types always compare unequal, and are
>   ordered consistently but arbitrarily.
> 

"if September is greater than the moon: do_this()" makes no sense to me either.
 I do not fault the language for failures of programmers (-: