On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:52:33 -0800, George Sakkis wrote: > I'm surprized that none of these pages mentions the incompatible type > comparison gotcha: > >>>> 5 < "4" > True > > I'm sure this has bitten many folks, particularly (ex) Perl'ers.
Why is this a gotcha? I can't speak for others, but except for sorting, I've never been tempted to compare ints to strings like that, but thinking about the code I've written, I can't think of any bad consequences that would have happened if I had. I'm not saying that there are never bad consequences for comparing incompatible types, but I'm questioning that it is a gotcha, let alone a common gotcha. What do others think? Ever been bitten by 5 < "4"? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
