"Steven D'Aprano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > You shouldn't expect comparisons between types to > sort the same from one version of Python to another, although they may, > and in the future (Python 3) it is likely to become an error to compare > incomparable objects.
Indeed, that was the basis of my original question. I wondered why no exception was raised. Thanks, Alan Isaac PS Note that the change you mention will conflict with currently documented behavior: "objects of different types always compare unequal". So this seems like a large change. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
