[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] ARRAY COMPARISONS

[Fredrik Lundh]

Konrad writes:
> Of course the best solution would be to give up this strategy and
> implement all the comparison operators independently. With some
> effort that could even be done in a backwards compatible way (i.e.
> using the old strategy for types defining cmp()).

Agreed.  I have several applications where such a change would be
really useful (like using Python classes to build expression trees for
later execution within subsystems; operations on images, for example).

> But that is far from a trivial change.

Not sure about that, really (thought it might add some overhead for
classes that only implements __cmp__).  Is definitely worth
investigating for 1.5.

Regards	/F

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