Plea for __eql__

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 22-May-00 Remco Gerlich wrote:
 >  Let's give an example. I'm writing a set of functions that have to do with
 >  positions in a chess game. Given two Positions A and B, A != B is obvious
 >  to
 >  implement. But to implement that in Python, I have to define __cmp__ - so
 >  not only do I have to define when two positions are equal, I also have to
 >  define when one is smaller than the other - but that is undefined! '<'
 >  should raise an exception, even though '!=' is reasonable.

Hear, hear!

/Mikael

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