Hellmut Weber wrote: > being a causal python user (who likes the language quite a lot) > it took me a while to realize the following: > > > l...@sylvester py_count $ python > Python 2.6.3 (r263:75183, Oct 26 2009, 12:34:23) > [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> max = '5' > >>> n = 5 > >>> n >= max > False
> Section 5.9 Comparison describes this. > > Can someone give me examples of use cases The use cases for an order that works across types like int and str are weak to non-existent. Implementing it was considered a mistake and has been fixed in Python 3: Python 3.1.1+ (r311:74480, Nov 2 2009, 15:45:00) [GCC 4.4.1] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> 5 > "5" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unorderable types: int() > str() Checking for equality is still possible: >>> 5 == "5" False Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
