[Patches] [ python-Patches-428320 ] rich comparisons as operator.__lt__ etc.

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Patches item #428320, was opened at 2001-05-29 07:58
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Category: library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
>Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: rich comparisons as operator.__lt__ etc.

Initial Comment:
Rich Comparisons (PEP 207) introduce new special names
in classes (__lt__, __le__, __eq__, etc.). They should
be available in the 'operator' module just like the
other special names (__add__ and the like).

This patch introduce 12 new names in 'operator': lt,
le, eq, ne, gt, ge, __lt__, __le__, __eq__, __ne__,
__gt__, __ge__. The first 6 are provided for uniformity
with the rest of the module but I am not sure whether
it is a good idea to clutter a namespace with names
only two letters long; for example, could names like
'eq' accidentally break existing programs using

  from operator import *

?


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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2001-07-03 22:53

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I'd prefer to see the names that don't have underscores be
lessthan, lessthanequal, equal, notequal, greaterthan,
greaterthanequal.  Not sure what others think.  I doubt the
issue is "from operator import *" -- no one should be doing
that anyway.

Also, the documentation fragment uses "informations" (note
the 's') instead of "information".

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Comment By: Armin Rigo (arigo)
Date: 2001-05-29 08:01

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Sorry, I forgot to login when I posted the patch.

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