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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst index 55b3a3a..54d1922 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/datastructures.rst @@ -560,15 +560,8 @@ sequences of the same type:: (1, 2, 3) == (1.0, 2.0, 3.0) (1, 2, ('aa', 'ab')) < (1, 2, ('abc', 'a'), 4) -Note that comparing objects of different types is legal. The outcome is -deterministic but arbitrary: the types are ordered by their name. Thus, a list -is always smaller than a string, a string is always smaller than a tuple, etc. -[#]_ Mixed numeric types are compared according to their numeric value, so 0 -equals 0.0, etc. - - -.. rubric:: Footnotes - -.. [#] The rules for comparing objects of different types should not be relied upon; - they may change in a future version of the language. - +Note that comparing objects of different types with ``<`` or ``>`` is legal +provided that the objects have appropriate comparison methods. For example, +mixed numeric types are compared according to their numeric value, so 0 equals +0.0, etc. Otherwise, rather than providing an arbitrary ordering, the +interpreter will raise a :exc:`TypeError` exception. |