An oddity in list comparison and element assignment

[Erik Max Francis]

michael.f.ellis at gmail.com wrote:

> With all due respect to your well-deserved standing in the Python
> community, I'm not convinced that equality shouldn't imply invariance
> under identical operations.

Doo you really want

	2 == 2.0

to be False?

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