On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:21:46PM +0000, Mark Dickinson wrote: > I'd argue that on a practicality-beats-purity basis, it wouldn't be > unreasonable to register both `Decimal` and `float` as implementing > `TotalOrdering` (or whatever the ABC ends up being called).
And that seems perfectly practical until somebody tries to compare or sort floats and discovers that they actually don't implement a total ordering if any NANs have crept into their data. This can be a genuine pain point: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/K35GTWPKNS2DSUMH63VTSWXQWVN6JASW/ https://bugs.python.org/issue33084 and various other discussions. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/MGRKRJDJ6J5QB63WTJMCM72XHZFYFAYC/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
