[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] More thoughts on comparsion operators.

[Konrad Hinsen]

> I thought I might be able to use this to make ordered comparisons a
> little safer. That is, to raise exceptions for ordered comparisons that
> make no sense instead of returning an arbitrary value. In particular,
> I was thinking of >, <, etc. on matrices. However this also applies to
> other cases such as comparing strings to ints.

I think we all agree that this is an important point and should be
taken care of. As for the suitability of your solution, well, I don't
particularly like messing around with things like INT_MIN.

Would it be much more work to use a more clearly non-comparison return
value for "not equal"? Perhaps None in Python code and a null pointer
in C code?

> Did you actually read this far? I'm impressed!!!! Well here's the
> patches. Let me know if you think they're interesting / useful.

Whatever a final solution will look like, your patches are interesting
just for personal use as a debugging aid. Thanks!

Konrad.
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