[Python-Dev] Python 2.1 tasks

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:12:57 -0800


M.-A. Lemburg <mal@lemburg.com>:
> Most important for 2.1 are probably:
> 
> 1. new C level coercion scheme
> 2. rich comparisons
> 3. making the std lib Unicode compatible

I'd certainly like to see rich comparisons go in.  I have a "Set" class 
all ready for addition to the standard library except that it's waiting
on this feature in order to do partial ordering properly.
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