default object comparison considered harmful?

[Kay Schluehr]

On 16 Mai, 10:03, "A.T.Hofkamp" <h... at se-162.se.wtb.tue.nl> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Yesterday we found the cause of a bug that has caused problems for a long time.
> It appeared to be the following:
>
> class A(object):
>     pass
>
> print min(1.0, A())
>
> which is accepted by Python even though the A() object is not numerical in
> nature.
>
> The cause of this behavior seems to be the compare operation of the object
> class.
>
> Is there a way to disable this behavior in Python (other than deriving a new
> 'object-like' class that doesn't do comparisons?)
>
> Sincerely,
> Albert

Are you sure you don't want to use a statically typed language that
captures all type errors just by inspecting your source code?