On Mar 30, 5:40 am, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallöchen! > > Bjoern Schliessmann writes: > > Lie wrote: > > >> Ah yes, that is also used (I completely forgot about that one, my > >> math's aren't that sharp anymore) and I think it's used more > >> frequently than ><. > > > Where did you read that (I mean, which country)? I've never seen > > this sign in any german or english book on > > mathematics/physics/engineering I saw. > > Maybe he means "≷". > > >> but my argument was that no math book use != or <> (except in > >> math for programmers). > > > That's true. Personally, I don't ever use "a!=b" in favor of "not > > a==b". > > As a side note, I've always found == rather ugly. I'd prefer to > have = for both purposes.
The earliest versions of Python *did* use = for both purposes. > The constructs that wouldn't work anymore > are rare as far as I can see (and possibly there are even > workarounds). The construct a = b == c could be rewritten as a = (b = c). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
