Annoying behaviour of the != operator

[George Sakkis]

"Rocco Moretti" wrote:

> One way to handle that is to refuse to sort anything that doesn't have a
> "natural" order. But as I understand it, Guido decided that being able
> to sort arbitrary lists is a feature, not a bug.

He has changed his mind since then
(http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045111.html) but
it was already too late. 

Waiting-for-python-3K'ly yours
George