[Python-Dev] Comparing heterogeneous types

[Andrew Koenig]

> Time for you to bite the bullet.  Guido has all-but-decreed that the
> future of comparisons is that TypeError will be raised for all operators
> other than == and <> for types that have no appropriate relationship
> system.

When that happens, I hope that comparisons between long and float will
either raise TypeError or behave as if they are done in infinite precision.
Right now, the long gets converted to float, which may lose precision; as a
result, it is possible to have values such that a==b, b==c, and a!=c.