Dan Bishop wrote: > BTW, are you a former Pascal programmer?
No. Why do you ask? [The code snippet I wrote was made up to get a point across. I did not actually use that function name in my code.] > > But Python > > somehow compares the function pointer with an integer without > > complaining. Unless there is a darn good reason for allowing > > comparisons of this type (and I can't think of one), I think > > Python should flag this as an Exception. > > IIRC, the reason is for backwards compatibility with a long-obsolete > version of Python in which it wasn't possible for __cmp__ to throw an > exception. That's not darn good, so this behavior is already slated > for removal in version 3.0. That's good to know. Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
