Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> The reason to prefer an exception is that decimal/float comparisons
> are more likely to be a programmer error than an intended behavior.
Not more so than float/int or decimal/int or bool/int comparisons, which all
work.
We forbid comparisons when there is a real danger or ambiguity, such as unicode
vs. bytes. There is no such danger or ambiguity when comparing a decimal with a
float. I don't see the point of being so restrictive; Python is not Java, and
typing is not supposed to be a synonym for bondage.
> Of course there is a precedent, I can compare "120" < 140 in AWK
> and get an automatic implicit conversion
The proper precedent in this context, though, is this one (py3k):
>>> 1 < 2.0
True
>>> 1 < Decimal("2.0")
True
>>> 1 > Decimal("2.0")
False
>>> 1 > 2.0
False
>>> True > 0.5
True
>>> True > 1.5
False
>>> True > Decimal("0.5")
True
>>> True > Decimal("1.5")
False
Are you suggesting to change all the above comparisons to raise a TypeError?
cheers
Antoine.
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