Incomparable abominations (was: python-dev Summary)

[Dan Bishop]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> wrote in message news:<1048379933.586672 at yasure>...

> What about
> 
>       1 == "2"
> 
> should it also be cause for an exception?

Imho, no.  It should simply have a value of False.

> Sorry if I missed the
> earlier posts in this thread that would explain how == differs from
> < in this application.

Because it makes intuitive sense that x != y when x and y have
completely different types.  The same cannot be said about "3" < 1.