Glenn Linderman wrote:
In order to do implicit comparisons, one must do an implicit coercion. Hence the PEP actually already prohibits implicit comparisons, as well as implicit arithmetic.
Not necessarily -- you could compare them as though they had both been converted to the equivalent rational numbers, which can be done without loss of precision. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com