Christoph Zwerschke wrote: > "These operators ≤ ≥ ≠ should be added to the language having the > following meaning: > > <= >= != > > this should improve readibility (and make language more accessible to > beginners). >
I assume most python beginners know some other programming language, and are familiar with the >= and friends. Those learning python as their first programming language will benefit from learning the >= when they learn a new language. Unicode is not yet supported everywhere, so some editors/terminals might display the suggested one-char operators as something else, effectively "guess what operator I was thinking". Fortran 90 allowed >, >= instead of .GT., .GE. of Fortran 77. But F90 uses ! as comment symbol and therefore need /= instead of != for inequality. I guess just because they wanted. However, it is one more needless detail to remember. Same with the suggested operators. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
