Armin Rigo wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:53:11PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: >>> I though I'd heard (from Guido here or on the py3k list) that it was only >>> 1 < u'abc' that would raise an exception, and that 1 == u'abc' would still >>> evaluate to False. Did I misunderstand? >> Could be that I'm wrong. > > I also seem to remember that TypeErrors should only signal ordering > non-sense, not equality. In this case, I'm on the opinion that unicode > objects and completely-unrelated strings of random bytes should > successfully compare as unequal, but I'm not enough of a unicode user to > be sure.
Agreed - for Py3k where strings no longer exist and Unicode is the only text type. In Python 2.x the situation is a little different, since strings are still very often used as container for text data. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 08 2006) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
