On Mar 29, 6:08 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I don't know if this is the right place to discuss the death of <> in > > Python 3.0, or if there have been any meaningful discussions posted > > before (hard to search google with '<>' keyword), but why would anyone > > prefer the comparison operator != over <>??? > > I doubt anyone cares. Python probably chose != because it's what C uses.
MOST of Python's operators are based on C's. Consider, for example, the bitwise operators | ^ & << >> ~ and the compound assignment operators += -= etc. The exceptions are ** (from Fortran), //, and the logical operators. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
