> != is explicit. > > There is no ambiguity that needs to be guessed.
Which is why i said it thought X != Y is cleaner i guess i wasn't totally clear, I would write X != Y its because the OP preferred to use the other format I recommended that he made the operator ordering explicit. -- Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset. -- Clare Booth Luce -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list