<> and !=

[Tim Peters]

[hokiegal99, on <> vs !=]
> What's the reason for having two symbols mean the same thing?

Hysterical raisins.  Python originally used only "<>".  C programmers whined
about that, so Python added "!=" too.  But Python code already used "<>", so
it was too late to get rid of that one.  "<>" was deprecated instead.
That's a computer science term usually meaning it's like a mentally
disturbed uncle:  we won't kill it, but we won't talk about it either
<wink>.  The good news is that Guido has become more hardened to whining
over the centures since then.