[Python-Dev] PEP 207 -- Rich Comparisons

[Guido van Rossum]

After perusing David Ascher's proposal, several versions of his
patches, and hundreds of email exchanged on this subject (almost all
of this dated April or May of 1998), I've produced a reasonably
semblance of PEP 207.  Get it from CVS or here on the web:

  http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0207.html

I'd like to hear your comments, praise, and criticisms!

The PEP still needs work; in particular, the minority point of view
back then (that comparisons should return only Boolean results) is not
adequately represented (but I *did* work in a reference to tabnanny,
to ensure Tim's support :-).

I'd like to work on a patch next, but I think there will be
interference with Neil's coercion patch.  I'm not sure how to resolve
that yet; maybe I'll just wait until Neil's coercion patch is checked
in.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)