[Tutor] comparing lists, __lt__ and __gt__

[Alan Gauld]

"Sara Johnson" <sarliz73 at yahoo.com> wrote

> What if there is a '<<' or '>>'?
> Does that just mean the same thing (maybe a little over emphasized.. 
> ;)

The double chevron operator is for bit-shifting its not a camparison 
operation.
So no operator override function exists.

> I thought I saw this when I was learning boolean expressions,
> but I don't recall.

Possibly, because its often used to manipulate bitpatterns in
conjunction with bitwise boolean comparisons (and/or/xor etc)

HTH,

-- 
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld