On Mar 29, 12:34 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 29, 5:55 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I don't know if this is the right place to discuss the death of <> in > > Python 3.0, or if there have been any meaningful discussions posted > > before (hard to search google with '<>' keyword), but why would anyone > > prefer the comparison operator != over <>??? > ...snip... > > You're forcing your argument too much, both != and <> are NOT standard > mathematics operators -- the standard not-equal operator is >< -- and > I can assure you that both != and <> won't be comprehensible to non- > programmers.
A lot of non-programmers use Microsoft Excel, which uses <> for the Not Equal operator. FWIW, the non-programmers on one forum I post on tend to use =/= . -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
