On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 10:08, Chris Angelico wrote: > seq1 == seq2 > seq1 < seq2 > > You only need ONE comparison, and the other is presumed to be its > opposite. When, in the Python 3 version, would you need to compare > twice?
== might be just as expensive as the others, particularly if the sequences are unlikely to share object identity. I suspect he chose "s1 < s2; s2 < s1" precisely because someone suggested in another post on this thread to exclusively use the less-than operator on purity grounds. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
