Re: Re: Simple Python question for some

2012-10-28 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Evan Driscoll wrote: > On 10/28/2012 7:18 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Which means that strings will ALWAYS be compared as strings, and >> numbers will ALWAYS be compared as numbers, and ne'er the twain shall >> conflict. I can trust Python to compare MD5 hashes re

Re: Re: Simple Python question for some

2012-10-28 Thread Evan Driscoll
On 10/28/2012 7:18 PM, Chris Rebert wrote: > This is fixed in Python 3, where such nonsensical comparisons will > instead raise TypeError. It's worth pointing out that at least one kind of inequality comparison which some people (e.g. me) would consider nonsensical is still allowed in Python 3, wh