Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: Stefan: the problem is backwards compatibility. In 2.6 it's possible to sort a heterogeneous list that contains both Decimal instances and floats. The resulting order may not be particularly meaningful, but for some applications that doesn't matter.
If we make a Decimal-to-float comparison raise TypeError for 2.7 then sort will raise a TypeError where it used to work, so it's a potential code-breaking change. We could deprecate: raise a warning in 2.7 and make it a TypeError in 2.8, but since 2.8 currently seems unlikely to happen that would be a bit pointless. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2531> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
