[Python-Dev] Decimal & lt; -& gt; float comparisons in py3k.

[Greg Ewing]

Glenn Linderman wrote:
> In order to do 
> implicit comparisons, one must do an implicit coercion.  Hence the PEP 
> actually already prohibits implicit comparisons, as well as implicit 
> arithmetic.

Not necessarily -- you could compare them as though they
had both been converted to the equivalent rational numbers,
which can be done without loss of precision.

-- 
Greg