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[Python-Dev] Decimal <-> float comparisons in py3k.

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> If comparaison of Decimal and float can have "unpredictable" result, I would
> suggest the same behaviour (raise an error).

Well, it's not really `unpredictable':  the new behaviour is perfectly
predictable and sane, provided only that you remember the basic fact
that float("0.1") is not exactly 0.1.

Mark

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