[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] ARRAY COMPARISONS

Konrad Hinsen hinsen@ibs.ibs.fr
Fri, 25 Oct 96 16:09:59 +0100


> > 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.

Of course. I expect the main problem to be types implemented in C.
They'd need new methods too, but in such a way that previously written
code would still work. But in my opinion it is worth even a major
effort.

Konrad.
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