python: operator "<>" in conditional statement

Question

I am trying to understand some python code from the internet in which I found this line:

 if len(u) <> 2:
        # some statements

and:

  if idPlayer <> 0:
        # some statements

Tried to google it, nothing found, not even in the python documentation...

What does the conditional sign "<>" means? When the conditions above are True? Thanks

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4007289/so-what-exactly-does-from-future-import-barry-as-flufl-do — James, Aug 10 '16 at 20:21
I think it's the same of `!=`, but I have never seen it in python (I have seen that one in SQL before and it represent not equals) — Yotam Salmon, Aug 10 '16 at 20:22
Check [this](http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_basic_operators.htm). This was the first link on google after searching: `<> in python` — Shubham, Aug 10 '16 at 20:23
@ShubhamBhattar: That doesn't come up at all when I perform that search. EDIT: no wait, it's buried further down the result list. — user2357112, Aug 10 '16 at 20:31

rscarson · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-10T20:34:06.023

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It's an alternate version of !=, checking for non-equality.

edited Aug 10 '16 at 20:34

answered Aug 10 '16 at 20:21

rscarson

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Worth mentioning: it was removed from the language and doesn't work in python3. Don't use it. – wim Aug 10 '16 at 20:32
It goes way back to BASIC, by the way, and probably was adopted from there in Python's predecessor, ABC. – kindall Aug 10 '16 at 20:39

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