Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: [Stefan] > ... a direct request to raise an exception...
Understood; the issue is that this conflicts with the general expectation that equality (and inequality) comparisons always work (at least, for objects that are perceived as immutable). I think there needs to be a very good reason to have an equality comparison raise an exception, and I don't find this particular reason good enough. The expected IEEE 754 semantics are still available through the published API: e.g., using Decimal.compare instead of '=='. So I'd lean towards having '==' follow Python rules rather than IEEE 754 rules in this case, with Decimal.compare available for the times when the IEEE 754 rules are important. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10356> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
