[Pythonmac-SIG] [ann] appscript 0.4.0 released

[Chris Barker]

Michael Hudson wrote:

>>Probably the easiest thing's to play with all three for a bit, and see
>>which you feel is least awful. Then decide which'll be easier: living
>>with the kludge, or getting a 'magic method' PEP past the BDFL. :)
> 
> 
> You have zero chance of the last, believe me.

To reinforce Michael's believability, "rich comparisons", which is what 
overloading the >,<, etc. operators was called, was added as of Python 
2.1 (I think) largely to support NumPy. NumPy would ahve loved to have 
beena ble to oeverload "and", "or" and friends as well, but that was not 
added for the reasons others have stated.

-Chris


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