Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

[Steve Holden]

Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
> 
> Jorge Vargas writes:
> 
>> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:03 AM, Gabriel Genellina
>> <gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>  I think it should be easy to add support for ≠≤≥ and even λ,
>>>  only the tokenizer has to be changed.
>>>
>> show me a keyboard that has those symbols and I'm all up for it.
> 
> For <= I have to press three buttons, for ≤ I have to press four
> buttons.  Not much of a difference.  ;-)
> 
> However, I'm slightly disappointed with the UTF-8 support in some
> mail clients involved in this thread, so Unicode surely has not
> arrived yet.
> 
I'd settle for a program listing utility that made the replacements.

regards
  Steve
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