Guido van Rossum added the comment:

> As I understand it comparisons between two objects should
> always work.

Hi Aaron!  Glad to see you're back.

It used to be that way when you & Jim wrote the first Python book. :-)

Nowadays, comparisons *can* raise exceptions.  Marc-Andre has explained
why.  In 3.0, this particular issue will go away due to a different
treatment of Unicode, but many more cases will raise TypeError when < is
used.  == and != will generally work, though there are no absolute
guarantees.

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nosy: +gvanrossum
resolution:  -> rejected
status: open -> closed

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