FixedPoint

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
> Magnitude (as opposed to identity -- "is") comparision of a FixedPoint
> to a non-numeric object makes no sense that I'm comfortable imposing, so
> I'm happy to let it raise an exception.

[Brian Quinlan]
> You shouldn't be. There is no more reason for FixedPoint to raise an
> exception (aside from your desire not to bother fixing it :-) than for
> other other "incompatible" types e.g.
>
> >>> 5 == 5 + 5j
> 0
> >>> 5 == '5'
> 0

Note that I said "non-numeric object".  FixedPoint supports a rich set of
auto-coercions from types that "make sense".  I'm not a fan of semantically
senseless comparisons, e.g.

>>> 5 < '5'
1
>>>

Making it easy to supply ridiculous behaviors in subclasses is what OO is
all about <wink>.