diff --git a/Lib/tokenize.py b/Lib/tokenize.py
index a9be4cf..27d566a 100644
--- a/Lib/tokenize.py
+++ b/Lib/tokenize.py
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 # Because of leftmost-then-longest match semantics, be sure to put the
 # longest operators first (e.g., if = came before ==, == would get
 # recognized as two instances of =).
-Operator = group(r"\*\*=?", r">>=?", r"<<=?", r"<>", r"!=",
+Operator = group(r"\*\*=?", r">>=?", r"<<=?", r"!=",
                  r"//=?",
                  r"[+\-*/%&|^=<>]=?",
                  r"~")