why (1, 2, 3) > [1, 2, 3] is true?

[Stefan Behnel]

fat bold cyclop, 25.02.2010 14:00:
> I tired to google for comparison of tuple to list but i failed.
> 
> Could anyone explain it to me?

Both are not equal, so the comparison returns an arbitrary result in Py2.

Note that this was fixed in Py3:

Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Nov  2 2009, 15:45:00)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
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>>> (1,2,3) > [1,2,3]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unorderable types: tuple() > list()


Stefan