comparing str's with ints

[Frank Tobin]

Frank Tobin, on 2002-04-29, wrote:

> BUT, *this* does not make sense:
> >>> '5' > 3
> 1
>
> What in the world is supposed to be the semantics of comparing a string
> with an integer?  Seems like a type trap...

I just read the Python language spec:

  The operators <, >, ==, >=, <=, and != compare the values of two
  objects. The objects need not have the same type. If both are numbers,
  they are converted to a common type. Otherwise, objects of different
  types always compare unequal, and are ordered consistently but
  arbitrarily.

'arbitrarily'.  Lovely, eh?

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