[New-bugs-announce] [issue36117] Allow rich comparisons for real-valued complex objects.

[Brandt Bucher]

New submission from Brandt Bucher <brandtbucher at gmail.com>:

Currently, it isn't legal to perform <, >, <=, or >= rich comparisons on any complex objects, even though these operations are mathematically well-defined for real numbers.

The attached PR addresses this by defining rich comparisons for real-valued complex objects against subclasses of int and float, as well as for decimal.Decimal and fractions.Fraction types. They still raise TypeErrors when either of the operands has a nonzero imaginary part.

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components: Interpreter Core
messages: 336628
nosy: brandtbucher
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Allow rich comparisons for real-valued complex objects.
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.8

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