Comparison operators in Python

Michael Sparks sparks.m at gmail.com
Thu Jun 2 06:05:37 EDT 2011


On Jun 2, 1:44 am, harrismh777 <harrismh... at charter.net> wrote:
..
>     Just another example (excluding  print  1/2  and  unicode) where 3.x
> seems to be completely compatible with 2.x/   (tongue-in-cheek)

One of the key purposes of the 3.x line of code is to get rid of warts
in the language. As a result, if someone is relying on warts, then
their code will break when changing from 2.x to 3.x.

IMO, this is actually a good thing since it encourages the reduction
in warty code. (People who want to use 2.x and 3.x can either use 2to3
and maintain 2to3-able code or write code that works in both 2.x and
3.x - which is eminently doable)

> (do Brits say tongue-in-cheek?)

Yes.


Michael.



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