Differences of "!=" operator behavior in python3 and python2 [ bug? ]

Tue May 14 20:15:53 EDT 2013

On Tue, 14 May 2013 19:01:38 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On 14 May 2013 05:09:48 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:

>> The <> operator comes from Pascal, where it was used as "not equal"
>> since
> 
> 	I thought it came from BASIC...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_BASIC

Ah, well apparently BASIC used it earlier, but I don't know whether it 
was an influence on Pascal (except as "what not to do").

-- 
Steven