On Feb 25, 2:03 pm, fat bold cyclop <fat.bold.cyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Both are not equal, so the comparison returns an arbitrary result in Py2. > > Thanks, Stefan. If I understand you correctly the comparison is not > valid. > But I wonder if there is any logic behind this (in 2.x). > Is it possible to predict result of this comparison? > > Thanks again, > fbc
I haven't looked in the source to check (and I'm almost 100% certain that tuple > list is an implementation detail), but I have not found any pair of tuple and list in which the list is treated as the greater. Possibly related: type(tuple()) is > type(list()). Or, to let the interpreter tell you why (1,2,3) > [1,2,3]: >>> tuple > list True Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
