[issue2531] float compared to decimal is silently incorrect.

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Just closed issue 7323 as a duplicate of this one.

I think this issue is worth reopening:  with the backport of the py3k 
correctly rounded string <-> float conversions, there might now be a 
reasonable way to rewrite Decimal.__hash__ so that it's consistent with 
float.__hash__.  Then we can make Decimal-to-float comparisons behave 
correctly and clear up this mess.

I'd still be uncomfortable with allowing Decimal-to-float comparisons in 
2.x but not in 3.x.  Maybe they could be permitted in 3.x too?

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resolution: wont fix -> 
status: closed -> open

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