[Interest] QVariant compare operator

[Florian Bruhin]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 09:50:06AM -0600, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Monday, 20 April 2020 03:28:48 MDT Florian Bruhin wrote:
> > FWIW that's the choice Python had taken with Python 2 (ordering different
> > types by their type name). It was widely regarded as a bad decision and
> > replaced by a TypeError exception in Python 3.
> 
> Interesting. Do you have more information on why it is regarded a bad 
> decision? A PEP, hopefully?

I have to admit my "widely regarded as" was perhaps a bit too anecdotal.

It doesn't look like a PEP exists for this, which seems quite surprising. There
was some discussion via email, but it's quite a mess to read, unfortunately:

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/thread.html
(the "Comparing heterogeneous types" threads)

https://mail.python.org/archives/search?q=Comparing+heterogeneous+types&page=1&mlist=python-dev%40python.org&sort=date-asc
(same content, more modern archive webinterface)

Florian

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