This thread feels very much like a solution looking for a problem.

But on one narrow point, I'm trying to think of everything in the standard library or builtins that actually forms a total order with elements of the same type.

* Not floats

* I think not strings with unicode canonical equivalence, decomposition, and normalization

* Definitely not sets, tuples, lists, dicts, etc.

* Arguably not Decimal because it is sensitive to decimal context

* Complex clearly not

* I think not datetimes under timezone issues (although any ordering is certainly *wrong* given the vagaries of timezones)

* Queues, deques, etc. don't even try, nor should they

* Do array.array's lack even a partial order?

So really I think we are left with wanting a test for whether something is "int or Fraction".

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