On Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:40 am, Random832 wrote: > "in" suggests a relationship between objects of different types (X and > "something that can contain X") - all the other comparison operators are > meant to work on objects of the same or similar types.
`is` and the equality operators are intended to work on arbitrary objects, as are their inverses `is not` and inequality. And with operator overloading, < <= > and => could have any meaning you like: graph = a => b => c <= d <= e > Why not make isinstance a comparison operator and have "1 instanceof int > instanceof type"? Having chaining apply to things that are not > semantically comparisons is just baffling. Somewhat ugly, I grant you, but if baffling? -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
