On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:00:29 +0000, Alan Isaac wrote: > > "Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You shouldn't expect comparisons between types to >> sort the same from one version of Python to another, although they may, >> and in the future (Python 3) it is likely to become an error to compare >> incomparable objects. > > Indeed, that was the basis of my original question. > I wondered why no exception was raised. > > Thanks, > Alan Isaac > > PS Note that the change you mention will conflict with > currently documented behavior: > "objects of different types always compare unequal". > So this seems like a large change.
Absolutely -- that's why it is scheduled for Python 3, which is the release which is allowed to make backwards incompatible changes. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
