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Re:The Python Unicode Mess by zbentley on Saturday October 06, 2018 @10:56AM (#18155431)
> "Are these two things equivalent?" has an unambiguous answer regardless of whether the things are of different types.

Absolutely not; that's basically the OG subjective question whose lack of an obvious right answer underpins a substantial quantity of the bugs in less strongly-typed languages.

Nor is an unambiguous answer possible symbolically, or in common logic, or the semantics of spoken languages.

Re:The Python Unicode Mess by wool_gather on Saturday October 06, 2018 @05:49PM (#18157451)
I think you stopped reading before my next sentence, which says the answer is "false" if the types are different.