On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 01:13:04 -0700, dewitters wrote: > On Mar 29, 6:34 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You're forcing your argument too much, both != and <> are NOT standard >> mathematics operators -- the standard not-equal operator is >< -- and I >> can assure you that both != and <> won't be comprehensible to non- >> programmers. > > What I meant was that both < and > are standard mathematics operators, > and that by that knowledge one could deduce what <> means.
But you would be wrong, because "less than or greater than" is not the same as "not equal to". >>> 3+2j != 2-3j True >>> (3+2j < 2-3j) or (3+2j > 2-3j) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: no ordering relation is defined for complex numbers -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
