Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment: The change we did was for == and != comparisons to always work (they now "raise" warnings) - mostly because doing otherwise resulted in strange exceptions when dealing with dictionary lookups.
However, this was not done for comparisons <, <=, >=, > since these test for ordering and it's not at all clear what the default outcome should be. >>> u'abc' == 'äöü' UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal False >>> u'abc' < 'äöü' UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe4 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128) >>> 1 < 1j TypeError: no ordering relation is defined for complex numbers ---------- nosy: +lemburg __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1997> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
