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

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