> - the wildcard object, which compares equal to everything else class MatchAny(object): def __cmp__(self,other): return 0
wild = MatchAny() print wild == 1000 print 1000 == wild print wild == (1,2,3) print wild == 'abck' print wild == wild print wild != 1000 print 1000 != wild print wild != (1,2,3) print wild != 'abck' print wild != wild Prints: True True True True True False False False False False -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list