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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3017...

Accepted answer links:
[functools.total_ordering]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/functo...

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ANSWER 1

Score 4


__lt__ is __gt__'s counterpart; you'll need to implement __lt__. While you're at it, you should probably implement __le__ and __ge__.




ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 3


You can use a functools.total_ordering decorator to create the missing comparison methods for you:

import functools

@functools.total_ordering
class Property():
    ...

Then you get False, False, False. Do make sure to read its documentation, though.




ANSWER 3

Score 0


Since you've declared the __float__() method, you could always write it as:

print float(y) > float(x)