Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:17:39 -0300, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>  
escribió:
> "Bjoern Schliessmann" <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com>  
> wrote
> in message news:65c0bfF2ffipiU1 at mid.individual.net...
> | > However, I'm quite sure that when Unicode has arrived almost
> | > everywhere, some languages will start considering such characters
> | > in their core syntax.
> |
> | This should be the time when there are widespread quasi-standardised
> | input methods for those characters.
>
> C has triglyphs for keyboards missing some ASCII chars.  != and <= could
> easily be treated as diglyphs for the corresponding chars.  In a sense  
> they
> are already, it is just that the real things are not allowed ;=).

I think it should be easy to add support for ≠≤≥ and even λ, only the  
tokenizer has to be changed.

-- 
Gabriel Genellina