FixedPoint

[Brian Quinlan]

 Tim Peters wrote:
> Magnitude (as opposed to identity -- "is") comparision of a FixedPoint
to
> a non-numeric object makes no sense that I'm comfortable imposing, so
I'm
> happy to let it raise an exception. 

You shouldn't be. There is no more reason for FixedPoint to raise an
exception (aside from your desire not to bother fixing it :-) than for
other other "incompatible" types e.g.

>>> 5 == 5 + 5j
0
>>> 5 == '5'
0

Cheers,
Brian