Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

[Aahz]

In article <5805ee5f-970f-4b16-a5c5-90ebe0748feb at y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
 <kwitters at telenet.be> wrote:
>
>I don't know if this is the right place to discuss the death of <> in
>Python 3.0, or if there have been any meaningful discussions posted
>before (hard to search google with '<>' keyword), but why would anyone
>prefer the comparison operator != over <>???

Are you asking why Python 3.0 gets rid of one of them or are you asking
why != was chosen over <>?
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