Why prefer != over <> for Python 3.0?

[Terry Reedy]

"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 ;=).