relational/boolean operator overloading -> PEP 207

[Greg Ewing]

Aahz Maruch wrote:
> 
>     5 In the current proposal, when A<B returns an array of
>       elementwise comparisons ... its interpretation as Boolean by 
>       the shortcut operators raises an exception.

That's a special case, though. In general, obj1 and obj2 will do 
the same as it does now on arbitrary objects -- i.e. evaluate to 
obj2 if obj1 is considered "true", otherwise obj1.

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