Ian Kelly wrote:
integer. However comparison between a string and an integer seems to > be permitted. Is there any rationale behind this ?It allows things like sorting of heterogeneous lists. It's generally viewed as a wart, though, and it was fixed in Python 3:
Just another example (excluding print 1/2 and unicode) where 3.x seems to be completely compatible with 2.x/ (tongue-in-cheek)
(do Brits say tongue-in-cheek?) :) ... just saying. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
