> When quoting some online source, please give a reference link. It took > me a while to find the following page with your quote in it: > > > http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/expressions.html > <http://docs.python.org/3.3/reference/expressions.htm> > in section "6.9 Comparisons"
Sorry about that. Thanks for finding the link. > > but that seems to be Python 2 behavior; Python 3 apparently raises a > > TypeError. Does the documentation need updating? > > > > That sentence is correct in context. The bullet items there are labeled > "Comparison of objects of the same type..." And the particular bullet > also qualifies the type of the two objects being compared: " Most > other objects of built-in types..." Got it, I was confusing built-in types with built-in functions--I incorrectly thought object(), for example, returned an object of a built-in type, and was behaving differently in Python 2 and 3: object() < object() Thanks, Kelvin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list