[issue2531] float compared to decimal is silently incorrect.

[Mark Dickinson]

Mark Dickinson <dickinsm at gmail.com> added the comment:

Here's a patch.

I'm still not 100% convinced this is a good idea.  Part of my objection is 
that it seems likely that these comparisons are fairly useless, in that a 
mixed-type comparison is probably going to be followed by a mixed-type 
arithmetic operation at some point (unless people are misspelling "x < 0" 
as "x < 0.0").  So all that's really gained is a noisy failure instead of 
a silent one.  Still, I suppose that's something.

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keywords: +patch
resolution: rejected -> 
stage:  -> patch review
status: closed -> open
versions: +Python 2.7 -Python 2.5, Python 2.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file13389/float_decimal_comparisons.patch

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