[Python-Dev] total ordering.

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/6/06, Vladimir Yu. Stepanov <root at renet.ru> wrote:
[proposing a total ordering between types]

It Ain't Gonna Happen. (From now on, I'll write this as IAGH.)

In Python 3000, we'll actually *remove* ordering between arbitrary
types as a feature; only types that explicitly care to be ordered with
respect to one another will be ordered. Equality tests are unaffected,
x==y will simply return False if x and y are of incomparable types;
but x<y (etc.) will raise an exception.

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