Can I make Python throw exception when equal comparing different data types?

Question

Say I want to compare 2 variables with different data types: string and int. I have tested it both in Python 2.7.3 and Python 3.2.3 and neither throws exception. The result

Answer 1

You could define a function to do so:

def isEqual(a, b):
    if not isinstance(a, type(b)): raise TypeError('a and b must be of same type')
    return a == b # only executed if an error is not raised