[Python-Dev] unicode hell/mixing str and unicode as dictionary keys

[M.-A. Lemburg]

John J Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> [...]
>> It's actually a good preparation for Py3k where 1 == u'abc' will
>> (likely) also raise an exception.
> 
> I though I'd heard (from Guido here or on the py3k list) that it was only 
> 1 < u'abc' that would raise an exception, and that 1 == u'abc' would still 
> evaluate to False.  Did I misunderstand?

Could be that I'm wrong.

All such mixed-type compares are wrong depending on the scale of
brokenness you apply ;-)

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