Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ]
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Mon May 13 23:20:36 EDT 2013
On 13May2013 21:41, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
| On 05/13/2013 07:30 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| >On 13May2013 19:22, Dave Angel <davea at davea.name> wrote:
| >| On 05/13/2013 06:53 PM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
| >| >I much prefer the alternative <> for != but some silly people insisted
| >| >that this be removed from Python3. Just how stupid can you get?
| >|
| >| So which special methods should the <> operator call? By rights it
| >| ought to call both __gt__ and __lt__ and return True if either of
| >| them is True.
| >
| >Surely it should require both of them to be true...
|
| Then it would never be true. At least not for numbers.
Well that was the point. The _symbol_ looks like it should want
both. Next time I'll include the smiley.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
I really don't like :-) symbols as well. I feel that if you can't see the pie
coming, you deserve whipped cream up your nose.
- robd at cherry.cray.com (rob derrick)
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