[Tutor] comparing lists, __lt__ and __gt__

[Sara Johnson]

First off, Kent, thanks for posting that!  I know it's in the Python library but it does help to have a bookmark for things I know I'll need pretty soon.

Second...  What if there is a '<<' or '>>'?  Does that just mean the same thing (maybe a little over emphasized..  ;)   I thought I saw this when I was learning boolean expressions, but I don't recall.


----- Original Message ----
From: Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net


Good question! The only doc I can find on this behavior is this:
http://docs.python.org/lib/comparisons.html

which just says that the comparison operation exists. There doesn't seem 
to be any documentation on how comparison works with sequences.

I think it is pretty safe to count on the current behaviour of < and > 
for lists. I'll put in a documentation bug on this - the meaning of 
these operations (and ==) should be explicit in the docs.

Kent


       
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