[Python-ideas] PEP 355 (overloading boolean operations) and chained comparisons

[Greg Ewing]

Paul Moore wrote:

> An interesting point is that while the proposal is about overloading
> the logical operators, many of the arguments in favour are referring
> to chained comparisons.

Not really -- the matter of chained comparisons was
only brought up recently. There's much more behind
it than that.

> If the rich comparison mechanisms were somehow
> extended to cover chained comparisons, would that satisfy people's
> requirements without needing logical operator overloading?

It wouldn't satisfy any of the use cases I had in
mind when I wrote the PEP.

-- 
Greg